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Queensland Government gold field reports

Title	Queensland Government gold field reports
Reference	GBR/0115/RCMS 292 (former reference: MSS 85 V)
Creator	Government of Queensland
Covering Dates	1885
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper; The back cover is detached from the volume.; Manuscript
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

Three reports apparently prepared for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886, inscribed 'Queensland Court: Statistics' on the cover.

1. A treatise on the Etheridge Gold Field by W. Samwell, Gold Field Warden, 24 October 1885, 49 pages.

2. Memorandum for the Commission 'Regarding statistical information as to the Gold Fields in the Gladstone District' by Alexander Macarthur, Warden, November 1885, 7 pages.

3. Report of the Hodgkinson Gold Field...by Lionel E.D. Towner, Warden, 5 pages.

Presented by the Executive Commissioners of Queensland at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1887.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Queensland Government gold field reports, RCMS 292

Further information

The contents of the volume were apparently not published, but the annual reports by the Goldfield wardens appear in Queensland 'Votes and proceedings'.

Donald H. Simpson, ed., 'The manuscript catalogue of the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (London, 1975), p. 167. Indexed

This collection level description was created by RAS.

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