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... Captain Arthur Wakefield - another of E. G. Wakefield's brothers -was sent to choose the site of the new settlement . He hoped to get government permission to take up land near Port Cooper , on the Banks Peninsula , later the site of ...
... Captain Arthur Wakefield - another of E. G. Wakefield's brothers -was sent to choose the site of the new settlement . He hoped to get government permission to take up land near Port Cooper , on the Banks Peninsula , later the site of ...
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... of the New Zealand Company had been converted to the idea of Church colonization , and were sympathetic to the scheme of two Scotsmen , Captain Cargill and Reverend Thomas Burns ( a nephew of Robert Burns 80 The British to the Antipodes.
... of the New Zealand Company had been converted to the idea of Church colonization , and were sympathetic to the scheme of two Scotsmen , Captain Cargill and Reverend Thomas Burns ( a nephew of Robert Burns 80 The British to the Antipodes.
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... Captain Cargill to lead it . On 16 May 1845 , the Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotland was formed , and worked with the New Zealand Company to found Otago . The Company was to purchase and survey 150,000 acres for the ...
... Captain Cargill to lead it . On 16 May 1845 , the Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotland was formed , and worked with the New Zealand Company to found Otago . The Company was to purchase and survey 150,000 acres for the ...
Contents
Penal Settlement to Pastoral Colony | 14 |
Assisted Passages | 25 |
Convicts and Settlers | 38 |
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