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… career in a new country. In 1849 he met Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and became emigration agent for the association, rather to Wakefield's displeasure; Wakefield also opposed his resolve to emigrate. …
… and a close friend of John Robert Godley. On Edward Gibbon Wakefield's initiative he became deputy-chairman of the … the transfer. Sewell was sent to Canterbury, sailing with Wakefield late in 1852, to wind up the Association's … in the fracas which brought the session to a close. Wakefield, also a member, and influential with the hesitant …
… , Straubel, C. R. (ed.) (1934) Adventure in New Zealand , Wakefield, E. J. (1908). …
… the “compact and contiguous” settlement envisaged by E. G. Wakefield would be achieved only if the majority of … it was decided to abandon one of the fundamental “Wakefield plan” tenets and give unsold land for labourers to …
… he became interested in the colonising schemes of E. G. Wakefield. In August 1840 he arrived at Wellington in the …
… and only 27,000 acres had been purchased. As in the other “Wakefield” settlements of New Zealand, there were many more …
… holdings at Hokianga and Kaipara were taken over by E. G. Wakefield's New Zealand Company. It is of interest to note …
… the superior force. Twenty-two settlers, including Arthur Wakefield, were killed in a fight of their own making. The … way resembling the “epitome” of English society planned by Wakefield, hemmed in by hostile tribes, and short of land …
… , McLintock, A. H. (1949) The Story of Canterbury–Last Wakefield Settlement , Reed, A. H. (1949). …
… had its genesis in the general framework of Edward Gibbon Wakefield's theory of systematic colonisation. In Scotland, …