Colonial Australia, 1841-1874 |
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Page 47
... DIEMEN'S LAND In 1840 the transportation of British convicts was diverted from the eastern Australian mainland to Van Diemen's Land and Norfolk Island . At the same time , the assignment system was abolished . On Norfolk Island , where ...
... DIEMEN'S LAND In 1840 the transportation of British convicts was diverted from the eastern Australian mainland to Van Diemen's Land and Norfolk Island . At the same time , the assignment system was abolished . On Norfolk Island , where ...
Page 77
... land fund , and no prospect of any ; there would , therefore , be no free immigration , and the sure result of such a state of things would be , to raise the price of labour , and bring in upon us whole shoals of expirees from Van Diemen's ...
... land fund , and no prospect of any ; there would , therefore , be no free immigration , and the sure result of such a state of things would be , to raise the price of labour , and bring in upon us whole shoals of expirees from Van Diemen's ...
Page 240
... Diemen's Land alone , but in all the adjacent colonies . Various individuals in Van Diemen's Land had protested against the moral injury which they conceived the society in that island to suffer from the introduction of convicts ; large ...
... Diemen's Land alone , but in all the adjacent colonies . Various individuals in Van Diemen's Land had protested against the moral injury which they conceived the society in that island to suffer from the introduction of convicts ; large ...
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