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The Founding Of South Australia - As Recorded In The Journals Of Robert Gougee, First Colonial Secretary (1898) (Paperback)
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The Founding Of South Australia - As Recorded In The Journals Of Robert Gougee, First Colonial Secretary (1898) (Paperback)
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time ensue. Free grants of land had been made in enormous
quantities, and had been selected before the colonists sailed. One
individual had been granted half a million of acres, and as he
naturally selected his "lot" close by the port, other emigrants had
to go beyond this vast and most eligible tract before they could
settle. Ultimately land was sold, but at the ridiculously low price
of one shilling and sixpence per acre, and consequently, as
everybody who went out was thus enabled to become a landed
proprietor, no labourers were found to cultivate the soil. The
result, which far-seeing men had apprehended was soon realised. The
scheme was an all but total failure. The renewal of interest in
colonisation at the period of which we write was due, in great
measure, to Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who advanced the theory
that free grants should be entirely abolished; that Crown lands
should not be sold at a low price; that hired labour could never be
obtained side by side with great cheapness of land; that " the
exchange of land for labour was the only method of realising a just
proportion between land, labour, and capital"; and that "the
universal sale of land, instead of land-grants, and the exclusive
employment of the purchaser's money to promote education," should
be the principle upon which colonisation in the future should be
based. Eobert Gouger, who at one time had been almost induced to
cast in his lot with the Swan Eiver Settlers, saw at a glance, in
the light ofthese new theories, the rotten basis on which that
colony was founded, and without hesitation gave up all thought of
settling there, and unreservedly adopted the principles of
colonisation as laid down by Wakefield. To a man of Gouger's
energy, to see a thing as practicable was to set to work and
prove...
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