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Title New Zealand Company, Original Correspondence from Associations. Canterbury Association, 1852
Date Jan-Jul 1852
Document Type Correspondence; Legal Papers; Financial Papers; Report
Reference CO 208/116
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name New Zealand Company Original Correspondence, etc.
Description Correspondence and papers relating to the finances and management of the Canterbury Association and New Zealand Company, including a manuscript copy of the report regarding the Canterbury Association's claims for funds 'voted by Parliament to the New Zealand Company'; the result of a Parliamentary inquiry. Includes copies of letters written by Lord Courtenay, Lord Lyttelton and Ross Donnelly Mangles MP.
Series Description This series contains original correspondence and entry books of the New Zealand Company which were handed over to the Colonial Office after the surrender of the company's charters in 1850. Also included are minutes, accounts, registers of emigrants and land transfer records.
Biographical Note / History The New Zealand Company was a chartered company formed in 1839 and incorporated in 1841 with power to buy, sell, settle and cultivate land in New Zealand. It did not prove a satisfactory agency for colonising New Zealand and was induced to surrender its charters in 1850. It was finally dissolved in 1858.
Theme(s) Politics, Legislation and Governance
Places Canterbury, New Zealand
People Alston, H F; Lord Lyttelton (Lyttelton, George William); Wakefield, Edward Gibbon; Lord Howick (Grey, Henry); Pakington, Sir John
Keywords administration, land, legislation, land sale, land grant, crown lands, land claim, money, finance, regulations, legislature
Language English
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