Box 4 Folder 3: New South Wales place names, 1899-1903 - Page 92

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                                                [Stamp] Land Board Office
                                                                               Grafton
                                                                             No 2400
                                                                      11 May 1900

List of names re

Surveyor T. Rankin to the District Surveyor 
at Grafton, transmitting a list of Native
names and also 5 lists of Native words, peculiar
to the Richmond and Tweed Districts

                                                           Lismore 
                                                           8th May 1900

Sir
   In accordance with your inst[ructio]n 
the Surveyor General's request of 31st January 1900 - I have the honor to
transmit lists shown herunder of native place names and other words,
with their meanings.
(1)  There is very great difficulty in
obtaining the correct meaning of native names
of places: as probably the dialects differ
even in quite adjacent localities - Some of
the native words and their meanings will
serve to check the meanings given to place names.
I have given several of the names numbers
to correspond with the number of the word
on the list. If I had had more time
I would have given the English meanings in
alphabetical form to facilitate reference
(2)      I collected most of these
names and words, from Mr Francis Mcquilty
of Blakebrook, near Lismore: who has more
knowledge of the Blacks: & their language and
customs, than any other man in the District.

The District Surveyor