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Reference NumberEph-Gp-0023Date1839-1848History / BiographyThe New Zealand Company played a major part in early European settlement of New Zealand. It grew out of the New Zealand Association, formed in 1837 to give expression to the colonising ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. In 1838 the Association was reformed as a joint stock company, the New Zealand Colonization Association and under its eventual name of the New Zealand Company acquired funds to equip an expedition and acquire land. It was known as the New Zealand Land Company for a time to distinguish it from the 1828 company of the same name, but once that body was merged into the company its name became the New Zealand Company. In 1839 a settlement was founded at Wellington, followed by Nelson and (through a subsidiary company) New Plymouth. In 1841 it was granted a charter, giving it official recognition and support. But the new British administration did not support several of its key policies. In 1843 an armed party of Nelson settlers, attempting to establish the Company's claim to land in the Wairau Valley, were killed by their Ngati Toa opponents. The British administration blamed the settlers for the affray. By 1845 the Company was in financial difficulties and its land holdings were taken over by the Crown. The Company was dissolved in 1858. (from Tiaki https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/; 'New Zealand Journal', 22 February 1840, page 13; Patricia Burns `Fatal success. A History of the New Zealand Company', Auckland, Heinemann Reed, 1989).TypePosterPrinted ephemera

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"New Zealand Company - Steerage Dietary. For each person fourteen years old and upwards"

"Regulations to be observed on board the emigrant ships of the New Zealand Company."

"Regulations to be observed on board the New Zealand Company's Emigrant Ships."

"Free Emigration to New Zealand."

"Emigration to New Zealand Important to Farmers and small Capitalists."

"New Zealand Company. ...Regulations"

"New Zealand Company, Emigration."

"Emigration to New Zealand New Zealand Land Company"

"Free Emigration to New Zealand."

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NamesNew Zealand CompanySubjectsColonisationEmigration and immigration

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