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Number 9 in the Hocken Library facsimile series. The original book was published in 1843 after being issued in six separate parts in 1842. It was written by Chapman, a barrister who spent 11 years as a merchant in Canada and was a co-founder of Canada's first daily newspaper, the Montreal Daily Advertiser. He also founded the New Zealand Journal in London in close support of the New Zealand Company. The Portfolio was written to direct the Government, the New Zealand Company and others to measures that were considered to be of advantage to the parties involved.
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The New Zealand portfolio embracing a series of papers on subjects of importance to the colonists
by HS Chapman
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Remarks on New Zealand in February 1846
by Robert Fitz-Roy
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A facsmile of the original edition on 1846 which was a work of great rarity with only 60 copies being issued. The book is an apologia for the governorship of Captain FitzRoy, who assumed office as second Governor of New Zealand in December 1843 and an indictment of the organised settlement of New Zealand. The book is the 10th in the Hocken Library series of reprints.
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