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Page 42
Instead of granting land to capitalists the waste lands of the Australian colonies
should be sold at a ' sufficient price ' , by which he meant a price sufficiently high
to prevent labourers from becoming landowners too soon , and sufficiently low to
...
Instead of granting land to capitalists the waste lands of the Australian colonies
should be sold at a ' sufficient price ' , by which he meant a price sufficiently high
to prevent labourers from becoming landowners too soon , and sufficiently low to
...
Page 46
Without either slaves or convicts , capitalists would be able to obtain as many
labourers as they wished to employ . By then the association had persuaded the
British Government to introduce into parliament a bill to empower His Majesty to ...
Without either slaves or convicts , capitalists would be able to obtain as many
labourers as they wished to employ . By then the association had persuaded the
British Government to introduce into parliament a bill to empower His Majesty to ...
Page 68
Just as the overlanders , capitalists , clergymen and school - teachers were
winning the battle against barbarism , Edward John Eyre came back from the
interior of their colony to tell them of the seas of desolation to the north and the
west .
Just as the overlanders , capitalists , clergymen and school - teachers were
winning the battle against barbarism , Edward John Eyre came back from the
interior of their colony to tell them of the seas of desolation to the north and the
west .
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Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 62 |
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