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The
Farthest
Promised Land
ENGLISH VILLAGERS,
NEW ZEALAND IMMIGRANTS
OF THE 1870s

Rollo Arnold Professor of Education Victoria University of Wellington

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ARNOLD, Rollo Davis
The farthest promised land: English villagers, New
Zealand immigrants of the 1870s / by Rollo Arnold. -
Wellington: Victoria University Press: Price
Milburn, 1981. - lv.
“… a study in some depth of one major group of
assisted immigrants, the recruits of the 1870s from
rural England”—Preface. - Bibliography. - Index.
325.24209931
1. New Zealand—Emigration and
immigration—1853–1900. I. Title.
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