Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 The social structure of British hegemony
- PART I THE COLONIAL ECONOMY ENTERS THE WORLD MARKET (1788–1830)
- PART II THE SQUATTING PHASE OF PASTORALISM (1830s AND 1840s)
- PART III CONFRONTING THE AGRARIAN QUESTION (1840–1900)
- APPENDIXES
- 1 Selected land purchases from the county register, 1831–1835
- 2 Differentiation among squatters by land possession and stock, 1844
- 3 Statement showing the difference between convict and free labor
- 4 Wool exports from New South Wales, 1822–1849
- 5 Statements concerning profitability of pastoral enterprise, 1842 and 1844
- 6 Letter (draft) to Henry Dangar, squatter, from R. Campbell Jnr. and Co., Sydney, 1840
- 7 Correspondence: Edward Curr to Niel Black, 1847
- 8 Memo of English capitalists on behalf of squatters, 1845
- 9 Memo from London merchants concerning pastoral labor supply, 1847
- 10 Memo regarding wire fencing, by Jesse Gregson
- References
- Index
9 - Memo from London merchants concerning pastoral labor supply, 1847
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 The social structure of British hegemony
- PART I THE COLONIAL ECONOMY ENTERS THE WORLD MARKET (1788–1830)
- PART II THE SQUATTING PHASE OF PASTORALISM (1830s AND 1840s)
- PART III CONFRONTING THE AGRARIAN QUESTION (1840–1900)
- APPENDIXES
- 1 Selected land purchases from the county register, 1831–1835
- 2 Differentiation among squatters by land possession and stock, 1844
- 3 Statement showing the difference between convict and free labor
- 4 Wool exports from New South Wales, 1822–1849
- 5 Statements concerning profitability of pastoral enterprise, 1842 and 1844
- 6 Letter (draft) to Henry Dangar, squatter, from R. Campbell Jnr. and Co., Sydney, 1840
- 7 Correspondence: Edward Curr to Niel Black, 1847
- 8 Memo of English capitalists on behalf of squatters, 1845
- 9 Memo from London merchants concerning pastoral labor supply, 1847
- 10 Memo regarding wire fencing, by Jesse Gregson
- References
- Index
Summary
The following letter, addressed to the Clothiers and Woolen Manufacturers of England and Scotland, on the subject of the Urgent Want of Farm Servants in Australia, has been widely circulated by Messrs. J. T. Simes & Co., Wool Brokers, London, and is in great part borne out by “the Report of the Select Committee on Colonisation from Ireland,” of the 21st July, 1847.
GENTLEMEN,
Between your no less ancient than valuable branch of Manufactures and the Australian Settlements, there has now existed a continued relationship of more than 40 years duration and but for the support which the first cultivators of fine wool flocks in that country received in 1803 from your intelligent body, it is very possible that you might not at present be in the receipt of one single pound of fine wool from that quarter…
But if thus, in the short space of forty years, the production of fine wool in Australia has become of vital importance to your interests it is now in danger of as suddenly declining, as it has rapidly arisen. The want of labourers, long felt in Australia as an increasing source of difficulty, has become such, that thousands of sheep perish annually for want of attendants, while tens of thousands are destroyed for the tallow they afford. And unless at the commencement you act in unison with the Australian Colonies and manifest your interest in the welfare of those distant possessions, every account from Sydney and Port Phillip concurs in shewing, how imminent the danger has become, of the chief source of your supply of fine wool being irreparably ruined and destroyed.
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- Settlers and the Agrarian QuestionCapitalism in Colonial Australia, pp. 272 - 273Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984