NRS-974 | Copies of letters sent to the Government Printer

Copies of letters mainly to the Government Printer and a few letters to the Board for the Management of the Government Printing Office, which had the general superintendence of the establishment. For other letters to this Board see NRS 947. Before 1841 letters relating to government printing will be found in NRS 970. Printing for the government, including that of the Government Gazette established by Bourke in 1832, had been done mainly on contract after having been almost a monopoly of the Howes for many years. This system proved unsatisfactory from the difficulty in getting the work done and in January 1841 Gipps reported that having had the opportunity to establish a government printing office he had gladly availed himself of it. There was some opposition from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury but the printing office remained. (4/3734; microfilm copy SR Reel 2861). 1 vol. Note:This description is based on Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.