1 AJHR 1874, D-3, p.41

2 For a study of the Kent union see Rollo Arnold, ‘The “Revolt of the Field” in Kent, 1872–79’, Past and Present, 64 (1974), pp.71–95.

3 Kent Messenger and Maidstone Telegraph, 6 April 1872, p.5

4 Ibid., 20 April 1872, p.5

5 Canterbury Journal, 2 November 1878, p.2

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

7 Kent Messenger, 4 & 11 May 1872

8 Ibid., 11 May 1872, p.7; Kent and Sussex Times, 10 September, 1875, p.6

9 Kent Messenger, 11 May 1872, p.7

10 In December 1881 Simmons made a full statement of his trade union philosophy to the Royal Commission on Agricultural Depression - see PPGB 1882, 14, Q.59, 159 - 59, 434 passim. His conduct of union affairs throughout the 1870s was consistent with his testimony to the Commission.

11 Kent Messenger, 11 January 1873, p.5

12 Ibid., 29 June 1872, p.5; 1 February 1873, p.7

13 Ibid., 17 May 1873, p.7

14 Ibid., 29 June 1872, p.5

15 LUC, 17 January 1874, p.6; cf English Labourer 22 January 1876, p.14, & 14 April 1877, p.3

16 Kent Messenger, 3 May 1873, p.5

17 Ibid., 17 May 1873, p.7

18 English Labourer, 18 March 1876, p.4

19 Canterbury Journal, 29 November 1873,

20 Kent Herald (Canterbury), 4 December 1873, p.7

21 Issues of the Kent Messenger for the last seven weeks of 1873 have not survived.

22 Kent Messenger, 3 January 1874, p.4. (advertisement)

23 This money was probably provided by the New Zealand Government.

24 Kent Messenger, 17 January 1874, p.5

25 Ibid

26 Kent Herald (Canterbury), 4 December 1873, p.7

27 S. D. Waters, Shaw Savill Line, (Christchurch, 1961) p.60

28 Kent Messenger, 21 March 1874, p.8

29 LUC, 10 January 1874, p.2

30 AJHR 1874, D-3, p.41

31 LUC, 21 March 1874, p.2

32 LUC, 10 January 1874, p.7

33 This option was offered in an advertisment by the Agent-General, LUC, 17 January 1874, p.8. The Atrato's passenger list has 40 Oxfordshire emigrants.

34 Evening Post (Wellington), 29 September 1874

35 Duncan to Provincial Government, 26 November 1873, Papers Laid on the Table, Canterbury Provincial Council, Session XLI, No.2, MS, Canterbury Museum Library.

36 Ibid., 16 April 1874; Lyttelton Times, 11 March 1874, for an account by Jenkins, dated 12 January 1874.

37 Duncan to Provincial Government, 14 February 1874

38 LUC, 11 April 1874, p.4

39 Duncan to Provincial Government, 16 April 1874, Papers Laid on the Table, Canterbury Provincial Council, Session XLI, No.48, MS, Canterbury Museum Library.

40 Ibid., Session XLII, No.27.

41 Russell, ‘Revolt of the Field’ in Lincolnshire, p.59; Labour League Examiner (Boston), 23 May 1874, p.2

42 J. P. D. Dunbabin, ‘The Incidence and Organization of Agricultural Trades Unionism in the 1870s’, Agricultural History Review, 16 (1968), p.115

43 Labourer (Boston), 4 October 1879, p.2. The occasion was probably Duncan's meeting at Ulceby.

44 AJHR 1877, D-2, p.32; Labour League Examiner, 16 May 1874, p.2

45 LUC, 18 April 1874, pp.2, 6. This party was advertised as going by the Eastern Monarch, which sailed 8 May, but Streatfield's name occurs in the Adamant's passenger list.

46 Kent Messenger, 2 May 1874, p.8;9 May 1874, p.5

47 Arnold, ‘“Revolt of the Field” in Kent’, pp.80–81

48 Kent Messenger, 26 September, 17 & 24 defendant October, 21 November, 1874.

49 Labour League Examiner, 5 & 26 September 1874; Lyttelton Times, 28 December 1874, p.2

50 AJHR 1872, D-2, p.19; LUC, 26 September, 24 & 31 October, 1874

51 LUC, 2 January 1874, p.7