1 English Labourer, 25 December 1875, p.15

2 e.g. AJHR 1879, Session I, D–1, pp.10–11, for a request by three long service surgeons for better terms.

3 Lyttelton Times,29 December 1873, p.3

4 AJHR 1874, D–3, pp.51–52

5 Lyttelton Times, 1 August 1873

6 LUC, 19 December 1874, p.3

7 Ibid

8 News of these banquets appeared in Labourers' Herald (Maidstone), 4 December 1874, p.3, and Labourer (Boston) 29 January 1876, p.2

9 Labourer (Boston), 4 December 1875

10 Tomlinson, Diary, p.14

11 Guy & Potter, Primitive Methodism in New Zealand, p.199; English Labourer, 4 September 1875 (letter from G. J. Aston).

12 Khan, ‘Immigration into Wellingto Province’, p.588

13 Lyttelton Times, 13 July 1874, p.3

14 Weekly Herald (Wanganui), 19 September 1874, p.6

15 LUC, 1 May 1873, p.3

16 Ibid

17 Labourer (Boston), 11 December 1875, p.3

18 LUC, 26 June 1875, p.3

19 LUC, 26 December 1874, p.3

20 Labourer (Boston), 17 November 1875, p.5

21 Labourers' Herald (Maidstone), 12 December 1874, p.7

22 English Labourer, 26 June 1875, p.9

23 Labourers' Herald (Maidstone), 1 January 1875, p.7

24 Labourer (Boston), 16 January 1875, p.5

25 Kent & Sussex Times, 26 July 1879, p.6

26 Labourer (Boston), 29 April 1876, p.5

27 LUC, 7 August 1875, p.5

28 Kent & Sussex Times, 24 September 1875

29 South Canterbury Times (Timaru), 3 August 1874

30 Kent & Sussex Times, 8 November 1879, p.6

31 LUC, 6 December 1873

32 N. Z. Mail (Wellington), 2 May 1874, p.18

33 White, England, Without and Within, pp.322–23

34 Kent & Sussex Times, 8 November 1879, p.6

35 Labourer (Boston), 19 April 1879, p.2

36 English Labourer, 26 June 1875, p.9

37 Stamford Mercury, 20 November 1874, p.5

38 N.Z. Census, 1871, p. V

39 Kent & Sussex Times, 8 February 1879, p.6

40 Lyttelton Times, 1 August 1873

41 English Labourer, 20 November 1875, p.5

42 Labourer (Boston), 19 May 1877, p.1

43 LUC, 13 February 1875, p.8

44 Labourer (Boston), 16 August 1879, p.2

45 Kent & Sussex Times, 1 February 1879, p.6

47 Alfred Simmons, Old England and New Zealand, London, 1879, p.60

48 Ibid., p.61

49 Letter, 2 June 1973, from Mary Shaw, Te Awamutu, a great-granddaughter of Sarah Strawbridge.

50 Labourer (Boston), 1 May 1875, p.4

51 AJHR 1877, D-6, p.8

52 AJHR 1876, D-2, p.4

53 AJHR 1879 Session I, D-1, pp.1–2

54 English Labourer, 13 November 1875, p.5

55 Kent & Sussex Times, 21 April 1884, p.6

56 Labourer (Boston), 19 April 1879, p.2

57 LUC, 2 January 1875, p.3

58 English Labourer, 4 December 1875, p.15

59 Oxford Mail, 28 March 1961. I am endebted to Dr Pamela Horn for this item.

60 Labourer (Boston), 29 April 1876, p.5

61 Kent Messenger, 18 July 1874, p.5

62 Weekly Herald (Wanganui), 8 January 1876, p.5

63 N.Z. Mail (Wellington), 10 July & 14 August 1875

64 Simmons, Old England and New Zealand, p.61

65 Weekly Herald (Wanganui), 10 July 1875, p.10

66 Ibid., 22 July 1876, p.5

67 Arch, Life, pp.25–27, 245–48

68 LUC, 25 April 1874, p.2

69 Kent Messenger, 11 May & 8 June 1872

70 Daily News, (London), 18 November 1878, p.6

71 Ibid, 29 January 1879, p.5

72 Labourer (Boston), 24 April 1875, p.3

73 For a fuller discussion of the issues raised in the last three paragraphs see Rollo Arnold, ‘North Island Education, 1871–1877: “The Great Leap Forward”’, N.Z. Journal of Educational Studies, 8 (1973), pp.112–31

74 LUC, 5 December 1874, p.3

75 LUC, 19 December 1874, p.3

76 LUC, 26 December 1874, p.3

77 Labourer (Boston), 22 July 1876

78 Ibid., 30 October 1875

79 Simmons, Old England and New Zealand, pp.93–94

80 AJHR 1879, Session I, D-5, p.1