This handbook, published in 1849, advises British settlers on clothes and other provisions to bring to New Zealand – including lists of clothing for the husband and the wife. At the time there was little scope to buy goods in the colony and what you brought would have to clothe you for a number of years.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: G. B. Earp, Hand-book for intending emigrants to the southern settlements of New Zealand. London: Routledge, 1852, cover and pp. 38-39.
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