008 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(Image-008.jpg) Transcription - Cap II (5) (iv) Verso Active enterprising and sober people of the labouring classes arriving in this Country without any capital without any capital would soon find themselves enjoying a competency - Mechanics ear 30/ [shillings] per week by tune and many can double that amount working by the [piece]. Sawyers frequently earn 1 [Guinea] per day, the usual price for sawing is about 9/ [shillings] per hundred feet, and two expert hands can saw three hundred in one day without much exertion - field laborers can obtain readily from 12-20 per anum besides a good ration in proportion to their utility. The natural consequence of these high prices is, that the major part of the mechanics and laborers are [old] dissolute fellows, attached to no place but rambling about the country in search of what they will never find an honest livelihood, squandering in one day the earnings of months and listlessly [rescuing] their occupations again to run the same course - there can be no stronger proof of the results of industry than that the richest individuals in New South Wales are emancipists who have avoided the prevailing vices of the country - There can scarcely be a country where there is a wider field for the exercise of honest industry in every branch And emigrants such as these would more enrich themselves and the community than many of the individuals who come out with capital, and who never grow wise until they find the necessity of exertion, these latter may tend to enrich a few [coseners] , but industry is wealth and the former will not only enrich themselves but be the means of giving occupation to and enriching others- Subjectnew south wales historylabourNSWHunter ValleySettlerAustralian historyMaitlandAustraliaDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2666319668/

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