Story: History of immigration
Page 19. All images & media
From page 1 - Early years
From page 2 - A growing settlement: 1825 to 1839
From page 3 - British immigration and the New Zealand Company
From page 4 - The immigrants: 1840 to 1852
From page 5 - Settlement in the provinces: 1853 to 1870
From page 6 - Auckland’s immigrants: 1853 to 1870
From page 7 - Miners
From page 8 - The great migration: 1871 to 1885
From page 9 - The immigrants of the great migration
From page 10 - Depression: 1885 to 1900
From page 11 - Migration: 1900 to 1914
From page 12 - Between the wars
From page 13 - The Second World War: 1939 to 1945
From page 14 - Assisted immigration revives: 1946 to 1975
From page 15 - The end of a 'white New Zealand' policy
From page 16 - Many leave, fewer arrive: 1975 to 1991
From page 17 - Multicultural New Zealand: 1991 onwards
How to cite this page
Jock Phillips, History of immigration, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/20631/media (accessed 4 June 2026).
Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.