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1 Stevan Eldred-Grigg, A Southern Gentry: New Zealanders who Inherited the Earth, Wellington, 1980

2 See Arnold, Farthest Promised Land, p. 261.

3 Chapter 7 above.

4 Chapter 8 above.

5 Chapter 1 above.

6 Eldred-Grigg, A Southern Gentry, p. 54.

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid., p. 53.

9 Ibid., p. 122.

10 Brett's Colonists' Guide, pp. 132–42, for a substantial treatment of ‘Manures’.

11 This feldon yeoman district is covered by pp. 414–79, 647–72.

12 E.g. Graham and Chapple, Ellesmere County, passim; Main (ed.), Our Lesser Stars, Chapt. 1.

13 Arthur Clayden, The England of the Pacific, London, 1879, pp. 18–9.

14 Arthur Clayden, British Colonisation: A Colonial Want and an Imperial Necessity, London, 1891, p. 17.

15 J.D. Gould, The Grass Roots of New Zealand History: Pasture Formation and Improvement, 1871–1911, Palmerston North, 1974, p. 18.

16 Ibid., pp 5–6.

17 Ibid., p. 16.

18 B.R. Patterson, ‘Reading between the lines: People, politics and the conduct of surveys in the southern North Island, New Zealand, 1840–1876’, PhD thesis, VUW, 1985, p. 223.

19 Brett's Colonists' Guide, p. 77.

20 Y, 24/11/1882, p. 4.

21 HS, 14/10/1892 (reprinting from Bush Advocate).

22 Eldred-Grigg, A Southern Gentry, p. 52.

23 Weekly Hearld (Wanganui), 11/3/1876, p. 13.

24 M.N. Arnold, ‘The Market for Finance in Late Nineteenth Century New Zealand with Special reference to Rural Mortgages’, MA thesis, VUW, 1981. See pp. 43–8 for her methodology.

25 For examples see Arnold, ‘Opening of the Great Bush’, pp. 378–9; Arnold, ‘Community in Rural Victorian New Zealand’, pp. 7–8.

26 New Zealand Farmer, June 1891, p. 248.

27 Y, 7/11/1891, reprinting from LT.

28 Arnold, ‘Opening of the Great Bush’, pp. 380–1.

29 G. White and A. Monro, Waimamaku: the Story of a Hokianga Settlement, Auckland, 1941, pp. 7–8.

30 Frederick Hall, Christopher Hanham and John Hook.

31 White & Monro, Waimamaku, pp. 31, 44, 58.

32 Main (ed.), Our Lesser Stars, pp. 15–39.

33 Graham and Chapple, Ellesmere County, p. 171.

34 Ibid., p. 150, citing Wakefield, New Zealand After Fifty Years.

35 Ibid.

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Title: New Zealand’s Burning — The Settlers’ World in the Mid 1880s

Author: Rollo Arnold

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