A History of New South Wales,: From Its Settlement to the Close of the Year 1844, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1846 - New South Wales |
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Page 102 - Providence ; and the latter would certainly require more labour than can be obtained in the colony, or immigration profitably supply. Independently of these powerful reasons for allowing dispersion, it is not to be disguised that the Government is unable to prevent it. No adequate measures could be resorted to for the general and permanent removal of intruders from waste lands, without incurring, probably, a greater expense than would be sufficient to extend a large share of the control and protection...
Page 101 - Admitting, as every reasonable person must, that a certain degree of concentration is necessary for the advancement of wealth and civilization, and that it enables government to become at once efficient and economical, I cannot avoid perceiving the peculiarities which, in this colony, render it impolitic and even impossible to restrain dispersion within limits that would be expedient elsewhere.
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Page 152 - Committee trust it will not be deemed irrelevant to state their opinion of the justice as well as the policy of applying the proceeds of the Crown Lands exclusively to the introduction of a moral and industrious class of inhabitants. The first emigrants were induced to embark their fortunes in this distant colony under the promise of receiving free grants of land, and in the confidence that the same policy would be continued as the best means of settling the country. If it has since been deemed expedient...