The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s

11 The Transformation of the Immigrant

11 The Transformation of the Immigrant

1 English Labourer, 25 December 1875, p.15

2 e.g. AJHR 1879, Session I, D–1, pp.10–11, for a request by three long service surgeons for better terms.

3 Lyttelton Times,29 December 1873, p.3

4 AJHR 1874, D–3, pp.51–52

5 Lyttelton Times, 1 August 1873

6 LUC, 19 December 1874, p.3

7 Ibid

8 News of these banquets appeared in Labourers' Herald ( Maidstone), 4 December 1874, p.3, and Labourer (Boston) 29 January 1876, p.2

9 Labourer ( Boston), 4 December 1875

10 Tomlinson, Diary, p.14

11 Guy & Potter, Primitive Methodism in New Zealand, p.199; English Labourer, 4 September 1875 (letter from G. J. Aston).

12 Khan, ‘Immigration into Wellingto Province’, p.588

13 Lyttelton Times, 13 July 1874, p.3

14 Weekly Herald ( Wanganui), 19 September 1874, p.6

15 LUC, 1 May 1873, p.3

16 Ibid

17 Labourer ( Boston), 11 December 1875, p.3

18 LUC, 26 June 1875, p.3

19 LUC, 26 December 1874, p.3

20 Labourer ( Boston), 17 November 1875, p.5

21 Labourers' Herald ( Maidstone), 12 December 1874, p.7

22 English Labourer, 26 June 1875, p.9

23 Labourers' Herald ( Maidstone), 1 January 1875, p.7

24 Labourer ( Boston), 16 January 1875, p.5

25 Kent & Sussex Times, 26 July 1879, p.6

26 Labourer ( Boston), 29 April 1876, p.5

27 LUC, 7 August 1875, p.5

28 Kent & Sussex Times, 24 September 1875

29 South Canterbury Times ( Timaru), 3 August 1874

30 Kent & Sussex Times, 8 November 1879, p.6

31 LUC, 6 December 1873

32 N. Z. Mail ( Wellington), 2 May 1874, p.18

33 White, England, Without and Within, pp.322–23

34 Kent & Sussex Times, 8 November 1879, p.6

35 Labourer ( Boston), 19 April 1879, p.2

36 English Labourer, 26 June 1875, p.9

37 Stamford Mercury, 20 November 1874, p.5

38 N.Z. Census, 1871, p. V

39 Kent & Sussex Times, 8 February 1879, p.6

40 Lyttelton Times, 1 August 1873

41 English Labourer, 20 November 1875, p.5

42 Labourer ( Boston), 19 May 1877, p.1

43 LUC, 13 February 1875, p.8

44 Labourer ( Boston), 16 August 1879, p.2

45 Kent & Sussex Times, 1 February 1879, p.6

47 Alfred Simmons, Old England and New Zealand, London, 1879, p.60

48 Ibid., p.61

49 Letter, 2 June 1973, from Mary Shaw, Te Awamutu, a great-granddaughter of Sarah Strawbridge.

50 Labourer ( Boston), 1 May 1875, p.4

51 AJHR 1877, D-6, p.8

52 AJHR 1876, D-2, p.4

53 AJHR 1879 Session I, D-1, pp.1–2

54 English Labourer, 13 November 1875, p.5

55 Kent & Sussex Times, 21 April 1884, p.6

56 Labourer ( Boston), 19 April 1879, p.2

57 LUC, 2 January 1875, p.3

58 English Labourer, 4 December 1875, p.15

59 Oxford Mail, 28 March 1961. I am endebted to Dr Pamela Horn for this item.

60 Labourer ( Boston), 29 April 1876, p.5

61 Kent Messenger, 18 July 1874, p.5

62 Weekly Herald ( Wanganui), 8 January 1876, p.5

63 N.Z. Mail ( Wellington), 10 July & 14 August 1875

64 Simmons, Old England and New Zealand, p.61

65 Weekly Herald ( Wanganui), 10 July 1875, p.10

66 Ibid., 22 July 1876, p.5

67 Arch, Life, pp.25–27, 245–48

68 LUC, 25 April 1874, p.2

69 Kent Messenger, 11 May & 8 June 1872

70 Daily News, ( London), 18 November 1878, p.6

71 Ibid, 29 January 1879, p.5

72 Labourer ( Boston), 24 April 1875, p.3

73 For a fuller discussion of the issues raised in the last three paragraphs see Rollo Arnold, ‘ North Island Education, 1871–1877: “The Great Leap Forward”’, N.Z. Journal of Educational Studies, 8 (1973), pp.112–31

74 LUC, 5 December 1874, p.3

75 LUC, 19 December 1874, p.3

76 LUC, 26 December 1874, p.3

77 Labourer ( Boston), 22 July 1876

78 Ibid., 30 October 1875

79 Simmons, Old England and New Zealand, pp.93–94

80 AJHR 1879, Session I, D-5, p.1