English Migration On New Zealand
By Voni
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, New Zealand was seen by Europeans as the most remote country on earth. Fifty years after Captain Cook arrived in New Zealand 200 more people started settling there.
When the missionary Henry Williams arrived from England in 1823, not a single Maori had been converted to Christianity , and the community was divided. Four years later there were still only 20 adults and 40 children in the three Church Missionary Society stations of Rangihoua, Kerikeri and Pahia.
In early 19th-century Britain conditions were such that millions set off for the New World in search of a better life.The company introduced long-term settlers directly from Britain, as opposed to those who travelled across the Tasman simply to harvest resources or souls.
Of the 18,000 settlers who came directly from Britain between 1840 and 1852, about 14,000 were brought in by the company or its successors. A third of the adult men were farm labourers, and another two-fifths were mechanics traditional rural craft workers such as builders or blacksmiths.
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