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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

Up-to-date information can be found elsewhere in Te Ara.

PARAGUAY

New Zealand has had a long connection with Paraguay in that several New Zealanders joined William Lane's New Australia settlement at Villa Rica in the early 1890s. A New Zealander now permanently resident in the country is Dr G. A. Smith, a medical practitioner in Asuncion.

Co-creator
Michael Wordsworth Standish, M.A. (1920–62), late Dominion Chief Archivist, Wellington.Bernard John Foster, M.A., Research Officer, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington and Heather Margaret Reid, B.A., Housewife, Dunedin.