Tasmanian state records

A careful consideration of all facts concerned compels the belief that, ranking in prime importance among State functions, is a proper preservation of State Records. Other processes being normally in a continual state of progression or development, can never share the innate quality of Records. Records do not develop - they are the imprint of current events. They stand alone in the world of Science.
Records have not been well treated by Australia since she took her place among the living entities of the earth.
It is the exception to find important Records explicit and reliable. For instance, the very date of Captain Cook's discovery of the N.S.W. coast is now called in question, owing to an alleged error by the Great Navigator in his calculations in crossing the 180th Meridian, while sailing westward from Tahiti in 1770. It is true that December 1st, 1642, has never been challenged as the day on which Tasman cast anchor on Tasmania's coast; yet many different dates have been assigned to Bowen's Settlement at Risdon in 1833.