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New Zealand Company, Original Correspondence. General, Folio 1-400 : Correspondence
Title
New Zealand Company, Original Correspondence. General, Folio 1-400 : Correspondence.
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
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1 online resource
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Notes
The New Zealand Company was a chartered company formed in 1839 and incorporated in 1841 with power to buy, sell, settle and cultivate land in New Zealand. It did not prove a satisfactory agency for colonising New Zealand and was induced to surrender its charters in 1850. It was finally dissolved in 1858.
AMDigital Reference: CO 208/56.
Reproduction of: New Zealand Company, Original Correspondence. General, Folio 1-400 Dec 1847 - Mar 1848.
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Text in English, French.
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Summary
Description: Mostly letters of application made to directors of the New Zealand Company by agricultural labourers, craftsmen, surgeons and families wishing to emigrate to New Zealand. Most state their credentials and enquire into bounty or free passage eligibility, as well as requesting advice literature, relevant forms and regulation information. There are also letters sent by Scottish and Australian banks relative to the closing of individual accounts and the financial affairs of the Company. A range of correspondence also relates to land orders and sales and there are also letters and printed items relative to the trial and qualities of William Burnett's solution of chloride or zinc, which was to be used as a disinfectant on board emigrant vessels. Other letters refer to plans to make land in New Zealand appear more inviting to capitalists in order to improve the financial affairs of the Company by means of creating more grazing lands for sale. There is also a printed copy of Edwin Ward's advice manual, entitled "England; her colonies; her superabundant population. A Few Suggestions", as printed by Mr. M Burgess, Walworth, 1848.
Variant and related titles
Migration to new worlds. Module II, The modern era.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English; French
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2023
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