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… until he perceived what he believed was Edward Gibbon Wakefield 's hidden agenda of self-aggrandisement and …
Type: Biography
… through a Wellington Council of Colonists, led by William Wakefield. In 1842 Hobson allowed the town's residents a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wellington region
… Martin travelled more extensively in New Zealand, met E. J. Wakefield and Te Rauparaha, and spoke with Hobson regarding … government in New Zealand, and criticised Edward Gibbon Wakefield, opposing the immigration of 'paupers' from …
Type: Biography
… Company The New Zealand Company was led by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who believed that land acquired from Māori should …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society
… The joys of canoeing In the early 1840s Edward Jerningham Wakefield was a passenger in a waka paddled by a Māori crew. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Canoeing and rafting
… Chinese settlement was scuttled in 1853. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, known for his success in settling the colony with …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Chinese
… radio series. In 1967 Enga and Gerald shifted to Fairbrook, Wakefield; after Gerald died in 1969 Enga moved to Nelson. …
Type: Biography
… (the chairman of the association) and Edward Gibbon Wakefield to invite Sewell to take a salaried position as … on 2 February 1853 in the company of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and found that considerable misunderstanding …
Type: Biography
… Club, briefly established in Wellington in May 1840; the Wakefield Club, formed there five months later to ‘preserve … Club, set up in December 1841, which amalgamated with the Wakefield, probably within a decade. Soon other clubs …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Men’s clubs
… Lewis moved to New Zealand in 1866 and made their home near Wakefield, in the Nelson region. They joined fellow members …
Type: Biography
… and improvements on property. Morality of wealth Wakefield’s ‘sufficient price’ for labourers buying land had …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Economic thought
… there were half a million. Vogel’s policies, like those of Wakefield before him, were based on a belief that New …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: History
… or Para. This was renamed Burnham Water by Colonel William Wakefield. In the 1840s it was drained by landowner James …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wellington places
… river in 1834. First settlers In May 1840 Edward Jerningham Wakefield bought 40,000 acres (16,200 hectares) for the New …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui region
… in Tasman Street, Nelson, leased to them by Captain Arthur Wakefield. This was the first step in the organisation of …
Type: Biography
… such as Kaiteriteri and rural Waimea (around Richmond, Wakefield, Brightwater, Māpua and Wai-iti). Motueka and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Nelson region
… for New Zealand’s Parliament. Wellington’s founder, William Wakefield, and other early settlers are buried in Thorndon’s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wellington places
… When the agents of the New Zealand Company, led by William Wakefield and assisted by the whaler Dicky Barrett (to whom … say we are only like dogs'. Certainly Edward Jerningham Wakefield , himself an untrustworthy man, did his best to …
Type: Biography
… he made on Henry Sewell when they first met, while E. G. Wakefield 's assessment was even less flattering: 'There he …
Type: Biography
… wide interests and liberal sympathies and opinions. Edward Wakefield said he 'held very strong ideas as to the …
Type: Biography