INTRODUCTION: On July 1874, during a discussion in the House of Forests Bill, Sir Julius Vogel, the Premier, said that he hoped soon to abolish the North Island Provinces. In all probability he intended, if unsuccessful ...

The island of Tanna lies in the Southern New Hebrides, north-west of Aneityum and south-east of Erromanga, and is about thirty miles long by ten or twelve miles broad. The most significant feature of the social organisation ...

INTRODUCTION The distribution of Silver Beech (Nothofagus menziesii (Hook f) Oerst) in New Zealand is noted for gaps and discontinuities (Wardle 1964). These have been hypothesised to be due to extinction of the beech ...

The scope of this essay is limited. It is intended primarily as an analysis of the report of the Select Committee on Chinese Immigration of the New Zealand House of Representatives, 1871. My purpose is not to examine at ...

The Great Depression of the 1930's has been seen by historians as essentially a national phenomenon which, unlike the Depression of the 1880's, was a relatively even experience geographically speaking, with no significant ...

INTRODUCTION The Public Safety Conservation Act is an important but little known piece of legislation. It confers upon the Government very broad powers in times of ‘emergency’ and has been invoked with sweeping effects. ...

Preface: This study makes no attempt to examine in any detail the establishment and the administration of Scandinavian immigration to New Zealand. The methods used in forming special settlements and the regulations ...

PREFACE John Bryce was Minister of Native Affairs in New Zealand during the early 1880’s. Perhaps the first note-worthy point about him is his comparative obscurity, but when his name is recognised it is usually in ...