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
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1988
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Massey University
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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]