A return of the freeholders
Subtitle: New Zealand's attempt at a domesday book
By: Michael Hamblyn
Publisher: Signal Hill Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
ISBN-13: 9780473152024
Subjects: Government publications; Public Printing; Return of the freeholders of New Zealand
Notes: "Paper read to the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand' s annual conference 'Government and Publication' Canberra, 12th/13th September, 2003 and now published as a limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies"--T.p. verso.

"Discusses the decision by the government of New Zealand to publish a document in the early 1880s, which came to be known as 'A return of the the freeholders' (1882), published in 1884"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.