| Description | Printed papers: official despatches and reports
1. Printed despatch from the Governor of South Australia to the Secretary of State on Northern Territory affairs, June 1891; foolscap, 7 pages.
This despatch describes Lord Kintore's journey through the Northern Territory, recapitulates the history of colonisation in those territories, and discusses the problems standing in the way of further growth in the territories. Lord Kintore identifies the shortage of labour as a major difficulty. He points out that the area has an essentially tropical climate and suggests that lifting some of the restrictions on the immigration of Chinese labour would be a possible solution. As things stand, the territory is a burden on South Australia's finances. Lord Kintore also discusses the desirability and difficulties of constructing a railway between the two existing railheads, at Pine Creek and Oodnadatta, a distance of 1227 miles (which Lord Kintore and his party were able to cover in 38 travelling days).
Four copies; two marked "Confidential" in red ink and one marked "Lord Sudeley from K." Some manuscript corrections to names in the text.
2: South Australia: Government Resident's report on the Northern Territory for the year 1889. Foolscap, 20 pages.
Contains reports on the pastoral, agricultural and mining situation in the Northern Territory, on the numbers of Chinese in the territory, and on relations with the aborigines. With statistical appendices.
3. South Australia: report on the Governor's trip to the Northern Territory 1905. Foolscap, 15 pages.
Report by Sir George Le Hunte, Governor of South Australia 1903 to 1909, on a trip to the Northern Territory in 1905, recapitulating in detail many of the points made in Lord Kintore's despatch and giving an account of the attitudes of the aboriginal population.
With plan of pastoral leases in the Northern Territory. |