Browsing by Author "Krivan, Mark"

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    The Department of Maori Affairs housing programme, 1935-1967 : a thesis presented in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in history at Massey University
    (Massey University, 1990) Krivan, Mark
    The Department of Maori Affairs housing programme was established in the 1930s through the Maori Housing Act (1935) and the Maori Housing Amendment Act (1938). A special housing programme was required because a large proportion of the Maori population lived in 'deplorable' housing conditions, and it was'... impossible for the average Maori to finance a new home'1 1. J M McEwen, 'Urbanisation and the Multi-Racial Society', in R H Brookes and I H Kawharu (eds.), Administration in New Zealand's Multi-Racial Society (Wellington, 1967), p. 76. through lending institutions because they could provide neither security nor regular payments. The purposes of this study are twofold. First, to examine successive governments' Maori housing policies in the period 1935 to 1967, and discuss how these were implemented by the Department of Maori Affairs. Second, to assess their effectiveness as a provider of housing for the Maori population.
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    Unrealised plans : the New Zealand Company in the Manawatu, 1841-1844 : a research exercise presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Diploma in Social Sciences in History at Massey University
    (Massey University, 1988) Krivan, Mark
    The New Zealand Company was formed in August 1839 following the amalgamation of two earlier colonising bodies. The Company was the instrument with which Edward Gibbon Wakefield hoped to give practical expression to his theories of colonisation, and it was representative of a Victorian trend toward colonisation by which the British ' ••• commercial classes and many of the British Ministers (worked) toward the expansion of British trade and shipping in the Far East.•1 Edward Gibbon Wakefield's theories of systematic colonisation and the activities of the New Zealand Company in New Zealand have been well documented and described in the literature.2 This essay is in the form of a regional case study, as it examines the Company's plans to open up the Manawatu and Horowhenua districts for European settlement by purchasing a vast tract of land from one Maori tribe with rights of landownership. [From Introduction]