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Kōrero: Ideas in New Zealand

Taking leave of old England

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Taking leave of old England

E. Noyce's lithograph is a good image of the many English families who left their home country in the 1850s to head south to Australia and New Zealand. Many were pushed by the tough life of the rural labourer, but many others were pulled by the vision of a society where they could eventually own their own piece of land and extremes of class hierarchy were absent.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: E-079-002

by E. Noyce

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Ideas in New Zealand – Wakefield and the ‘better Britain’, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/45480/taking-leave-of-old-england (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 3 June 2014.