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Colonial treasurer’s working accounts, 1867

A colonial treasurer could acknowledge the ‘unselfish and untiring assiduity, and remarkable ability, of the officers of the Treasury department’ (Julius Vogel in 1869), but as these pages from papers assembled by Treasurer William Fitzherbert for the 1867 financial statement indicate, treasurers themselves were also deeply involved, as they were responsible for the presentation of accounts.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Treasury – The Treasury, 1840 to 1935, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/34927/colonial-treasurers-working-accounts-1867 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 28 March 2012.