Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/New_Zealand_Company> ?p ?o }
- New_Zealand_Company abstract "The New Zealand Company was a 19th century English company that played a key role in the colonisation of New Zealand. The company was formed to carry out the principles of systematic colonisation devised by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who envisaged the creation of a new-model English society in the southern hemisphere. Under Wakefield’s model, the colony would attract capitalists who would then have a ready supply of labour—migrant labourers who could not initially afford to be property owners, but who would have the expectation of one day buying land with their savings.The New Zealand Company established settlements at Wellington, Nelson, Wanganui and Dunedin and also became involved in the settling of New Plymouth and Christchurch. It reached the peak of efficiency about 1841, encountered financial problems from 1843 from which it never recovered, and wound up in 1858.The company’s board members included aristocrats, members of Parliament and a prominent magazine publisher, who used their political connections to ceaselessly lobby the British government to achieve its aims. The company indulged in many questionable land purchases from Māori, in many cases reselling land it did not own, and launched elaborate, grandiose and sometimes fraudulent advertising campaigns. It vigorously attacked those it perceived as its opponents—chiefly the British Colonial Office, successive governors of New Zealand, the Church Missionary Society and prominent missionary the Rev. Henry Williams—and it stridently opposed the Treaty of Waitangi, which was an obstacle to the company obtaining the greatest possible amount of New Zealand land at the cheapest price. The company, in turn, was frequently criticised by the Colonial Office and New Zealand Governors for its \"trickery\" and lies. Missionaries in New Zealand were also critical of the company, fearing its activities would lead to the “conquest and extermination” of Maori inhabitants.The company viewed itself as a prospective quasi-government of New Zealand and in 1845 and 1846 proposed splitting the colony in two, along a line from Mokau in the west to Cape Kidnappers in the east—with the north reserved for Māori and missionaries, while the south would become a self-governing province, known as \"New Victoria\" and managed by the company for that purpose. Britain's Colonial Secretary rejected the proposal.Only 15,500 settlers arrived in New Zealand as part of the company's colonisation schemes, but three of its settlements would—along with Auckland—become and remain the country's \"main centres\" and provide the foundation for the system of provincial government introduced in 1853.".
- New_Zealand_Company thumbnail New_Zealand_Company_Coat_of_Arms.jpg?width=300.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageExternalLink en.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageExternalLink en.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageExternalLink en.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageID "315351".
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageLength "49811".
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageOutDegree "154".
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageRevisionID "708007276".
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Adelaide.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Agathis.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Akaroa.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Auckland.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Australasia.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Barque.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Bay_of_Islands.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Bill_(law).
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Bremen.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Canterbury_Association.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Kidnappers.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_colonisation_of_Oceania.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:Chartered_companies.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:Chartered_companies_established_in_1839.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_New_Zealand.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:Immigration_to_New_Zealand.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Buller.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Grant,_1st_Baron_Glenelg.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Chatham_Islands.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Chile.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Christchurch.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Church_Mission_Society.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Church_of_England.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Cloudy_Bay.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Colonial_Office.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Constantine_Phipps,_1st_Marquess_of_Normanby.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Consul_(representative).
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Cook_Strait.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Coromandel_Peninsula.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink DUrville_Island_(New_Zealand).
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Dicky_Barrett_(trader).
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Dunedin.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Edinburgh.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Gibbon_Wakefield.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Flax_in_New_Zealand.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Francis_Baring,_3rd_Baron_Ashburton.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Free_Church_of_Scotland_(1843–1900).
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Government_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Governor_General_of_Canada.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Grey,_3rd_Earl_Grey.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Williams_(missionary).
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink History_of_New_Plymouth.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink History_of_New_Zealand.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Hokianga.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink House_of_Commons.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Hutt_River_(New_Zealand).
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Jerningham_Wakefield.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Jews_harp.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink John_Lambton,_1st_Earl_of_Durham.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Joint-stock_company.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Lambton_Quay.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink London.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Lyttelton_Harbour.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Manawatu_District.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Manukau_Harbour.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Member_of_parliament.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Mokau.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Motion_of_no_confidence.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Māori_language.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Māori_people.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Nelson,_New_Zealand.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink New_Plymouth.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink New_South_Wales.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Ngāi_Tahu.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Ngāpuhi.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Ngāti_Toa.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Otago.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Otago_Harbour.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Paeroa.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Patea.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Petone.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Principles_of_intelligent_urbanism.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Pā.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Queen_Charlotte_Sound_(New_Zealand).
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Radical_Whigs.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Radicalism_(historical).
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Robert_FitzRoy.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Stephen_Rintoul.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Wilmot-Horton.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Royal_charter.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Secretary_of_State_for_War_and_the_Colonies.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Shrigley_abduction.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Sir_William_Molesworth,_8th_Baronet.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink South_Australia.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink South_Australia_Act_1834.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink South_Island.
- New_Zealand_Company wikiPageWikiLink Speculation.