NRS-4514 | Despatches and enclosures from the Secretary of State relating to the fertilizer guano

• Other Authors: Governor (hasCreator), Governor (hasCollector), Governor (isManagedBy)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: NSW State Archives Collection
• Subjects: HISTORICAL STUDIES; HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY; Bird Island; Gertrude; Guano; Pacific; The Schooner
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/nrs-4514-despatches-fertilizer-guano/171826; https://search.records.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/1ednqkf/ADLIB_RNSW110004757

These despatches are concerned with the issue of licences to extract the fertilizer guano from various uninhabited islands in the seas around Australia. The licensing arrangement for islands not within the limits of other Colonial Government's jurisdictions were placed in the hands of the Gover...