Record

Document Reference	Os C 285
Title	Letter from Sir W.T. Denison, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, to J.E. Denison, Ossington, Nottinghamshire; 8 Aug. 1847
Date	8 August 1847
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Continues discussion of transportation from last letter; has heard from England that transportation is to cease but believes people in colonies are not grateful; believes remaining convicts will supply secure labour for few years but consequences will be felt in higher wages; states that colony population is decreasing with migration; has plans for improving transport and education in colony; believes colony should rely on local rather than Government contributions; discusses division of church and public schools; states that he wants to levy compulsory school rate; informs him that he has problems with Colonial Office appointees.
Term	appointments, colonial
	punishments, transportation
	colonial affairs, labour
	demography
	colonial affairs, administration
	taxation
	schools, religious
	government departments, Colonial Office

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA982	Gladstone; William E. (1809-1898); P.M. 1868-74 1880-85 1886 1892-94	1809-1898
NA207	Denison; William T. (1804-1871); Sir; colonial governor brother of J.E. Denison knighted 1846	1804-1871
NA199	Denison; J. Evelyn (1800-1873); 1st Viscount Ossington; M.P. Speaker of House of Commons 1857-72 created Viscount Ossington 1872	1800-1873