Adelaide, AFA, 1949. Less of the usual miscellany of Aboriginal interest from around the country, more a series of longer articles, including ALBRECHT, F.W.: Building a Bridge across the Gulf that separates the White and Black Australian Race (5 pages) and Thinking Black - a Studious Survey of our Aboriginal..... More
Adelaide, AFA, 1969. The usual miscellany of paragraphs and short articles on Aboriginal matters from around the country. With the pencilled ownership initials of Tom Austen Brown. More
Canberra, Government Printer, 1939. The period covered is 1 July to 31 December 1938. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 172 of 1937-38-39; only 810 copies printed. More
Adelaide, Aborigines' Friends' Association, [late 1930s?, reprinted from the AFA Report]. The first six pages contain captioned plates depicting 'Uncivilized natives, living under stone age conditions'; the next nine pages 'Civilized natives, who have come under mission influence', and the last page contains text by David Unaipon: 'An Aboriginal Pleads..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1866. Full details of the project: primarily a monthly service between Java, Brisbane and Sydney, via Torres Straits, but including proposals from "Colonel Finniss, Resident of the northern part of South Australia ... for establishing a steam service between..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1907. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 12 of 1907 (Second Session); only 900 copies printed. The items under discussion are primarily of a tropical nature: cotton fibres, mohair, vegetable oils, rice, rubber, coffee beans, tobacco leaf, dates (and fish). More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1881. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 179 of 1881. More
Sydney, Government Printer, 1862. The despatches, from the Duke of Newcastle, the incumbent Secretary of State for the Colonies, concern whether 'the northern part of Australia should be formed into a new Colony, or that a portion of the territory in question should be annexed to Queensland'. Newcastle's recommendation was..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 80 of 1866. Primarily reports from Escape Cliffs Camp by James Manton, Acting Government Resident after the recall of Finniss; they include the complete journal of events at the camp from Manton's arrival on 13 November 1865 until 10 August 1866..... More
[Adelaide, Government Printer], 1865. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 79A of 1868. The correspondence ranges in dates from 13 February 1864 to 4 September 1868; it includes good contributions by Francis Cadell (a half-page interim report on his expedition) and John Robertson, business partner of the explorer J.G. Macdonald (a..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1878. Primarily accounts from Mauritius newspapers commenting on the Minister Controlling the Northern Territory of South Australia's communication 'relative to the land you wish to bring under cultivation'. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 43 of 1878. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 55 of 1866. Mainly routine matters, but there is a page of information and 'Instructions to Botanical Collector' prepared by Dr Richard Schomburgk, Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1884. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 20A of 1884; only 710 copies printed. The bulk of the report is an exhaustive alphabetical list of all general imports into the Northern Territory; the one-page list of exports is instructive in its lack of substance. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1870. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 56 of 1870. More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1863. 'On 16 July, 1863, the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1870. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 210 of 1869-70. With the exception of the identity of the Government Resident, this short paper gives the position, name and salary of all 44 members of the first Northern Territory Resident Party (the estimated net cost per annum was 7777..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1869. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 175 of 1869. A letter dated 23 December 1868 from Wentworth Cavenagh, Commissioner of Crown Lands, to George Goyder - essentially routine matters. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, [1870]. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 32 of 1870 (surprisingly, the date is not printed on the item, but 1870 is correct). The descriptive notes by surveyor George McLachlan for Section 1681 in the Hundred of Ayers are typical: 'Light brown loamy soil, generally covered with nodulous..... More
[Melbourne], Government Printer, 1907. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 130 of 1907 (Second Session): only 950 copies printed. A detailed list, prepared by Arthur Searcy, Deputy-Commissioner of Taxes, Adelaide, giving the names of individuals, companies and syndicates holding such lands, with '(a) Total area and estimated capital value of each holding..... More
[Melbourne], Government Printer, 1909. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 21 of 1909: only 950 copies printed. Alfred Deakin and Thomas Price (South Australian Premier) figure prominently in the correspondence; with 12 pages detailing the estimated and actual expenditure and revenue for the period 1907-08. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1880. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 80 of 1880. Bagot, Buchanan, Elder, A. Giles, E. Giles, Tennant and other familiar names. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1883. Official "correspondence with the Imperial Government concerning the title of this colony to the Northern Territory". South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 113 of 1883; only 620 copies printed. More
(Melbourne), Government Printer, 1915. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 197 of 1914-15; only 950 copies printed. Details of a Memorandum of Agreement to provide a monthly steamship service to Darwin for a period of two years from May 1915. More
