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1 E.W. Payton, Round About New Zealand, London, 1888, pp. 169–71.
2 Arthur Clayden, A Popular Handbook to New Zealand, London, 1885, pp. 197–8.
3 For example in 1884 the United Fire Brigades Association met there in January (B.C. Cathcart, ‘Water On!’ The First Hundred Years of the United Fire Brigades' Association of New Zealand, Palmerston North, 1978, p. 11), and the Senate of the University of New Zealand in February (AJHR, 1884 Sess. 1, E-5, p. 2).
4 Margaret Galt, ‘Doing Well for Bella: Foreign Mortgages in the New Zealand Financial System, 1885–1901’, NZJH, 18, 1, April 1984, pp. 50–65.
5 Ibid., pp. 59–60.
6 AWN, 14/7/1883.
7 Otago Witness, reprinted in Y, 12/5/1882, p. 11.
8 AWN, reprinted in Y, 4/2/1887, p. 12.
9 AWN, 14/11/1885, p. 7.
10 HS, 26/10/1885.
11 Reprinted TH, 7/4/1874.
12 Cited Y, 30/7/1886, p. 3.
13 27/5/1887, p. 9.
14 Arnold, ‘Opening of the Great Bush’, pp. 68, 660; NZM, 27/1/1888.
15 HS, 20/10/1885.
16 Arnold, ‘Opening of the Great Bush’, pp. 683–6.
17 AWN, 4/8/1883.
18 Rollo Arnold, ‘British Settlers and the Land’, in J. Phillips, ed., Te Whenua, Te Iwi: The Land and the People, Wellington, 1987, pp. 27–41.
19 Y, 23/3/1883, p. 7.
20 HS, 6/7/1885 & 6/10/1885.
21 HS, 10/1/1884.
22 HS, 23/6/1884.
23 HS, 5/11/1884.
24 HS, 8/10/1885
25 M. Leslie, et al, eds., Patea: A Centennial History, Patea, 1981, p. 144.
26 CNZ, VI, pp. 76, 234.
27 Campbell McAllister, Old Taranaki and its Mountain, Wellington, 1976, for a list of the buyers.
28 New Plymouth Sash and Door Factory and Timber Co., Shareholders' Register, MS, New Plymouth City Library.
29 Arnold, ‘Opening of the Great Bush’, pp. 383–5.
30 The part played by these leaders will be more fully examined in Chapter 17.
31 In the Wellington Almanack 1886.
32 CNZ, I, pp. 663.