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'Taking a rise out of the new chum'

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'Taking a rise out of the new chum'

At the turn of the century the many immigrants from Britain were occasionally mocked. Sometimes they were labelled ‘new chums’, as in this 1904 cartoon.

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Jock Phillips, History of immigration – Migration: 1900 to 1914, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/2134/taking-a-rise-out-of-the-new-chum (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.