Proposed Settlement on Victoria River
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1879.
Foolscap folio, 2 pages.
Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound (now disbound); left and right margins are chipped, with a few short tears to the leading edge; a good copy.
South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 128 of 1879. The proposal came from an Englishman, W.J. Browne, and full details of his scheme are included (not less than 500 natives of Great Britain, predominantly 'capitalist-bachelors' ... and so on); tacit Ministerial approval is given, after stressing that the country 'would require experience of a very different kind to that of young English farmers' and sounding similar sorts of warnings.
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