ABSTRACT
THE CAMPAIGN of the 'systematic colonisers'. commencing in May 1829, prospered with the attack on Swan River. After being hampered by Under-Secretaries Horton and Hay, they won over Goderich, who managed the colonies for the new Whig Ministry of November 1830.1 Within two months, there came a complete reversal of previous land policies, and the establishment of sales as the only mode of obtaining colonial lands (January 1831).
