On 25 June 1950, the armed forces of the People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) invaded the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Four days later, on 29 June 1950, New Zealand decided to assist in defending the territorial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This long essay sets out to trace the pattern of land tenure that has evolved, over roughly a century, on one of the largest sheep stations in the upper Waitaki area. Of central importance to the Benmore Sheep Station was ...

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. ...

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 ...

This study recounts the diversification which occurred in the social life of Dunedin between January of 1860 and December of 1864. It has been suggested that the gold rushes in Central Otago brought to the floor the few ...

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 ...