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On this day 9 September 1908 tourism and immigration interests came together in a campaign to promote New Zealand to overseas travellers. At a modest cost of 48 pounds the departments agreed to reprint a 10,000 copies of the pictorial booklet “Making a Home in New Zealand - the Story of a Successful Immigrant” which uses purple prose and a highly optimistic view of living conditions to lure settlers here from the other side of the world. In the words of nameless immigrant who moved from Britain to Hokianga in 1906: “Two years and nine months ago I did the first bit of bush felling on my section. Now there are twelve acres sown in English grass and three acres in clover. Besides this there are eleven acres of fruit trees planted out at the rate of 108 trees to the acre. There are 432 Bartlett pears, over 300 peach trees and one hundred orange trees for marmalade, with 5000 strawberry plants and about 100 raisin grapes. I have done this to give myself and family a home and my children a good living.” The booklet gives an interesting snapshot of the times with images including the SS Maheno (later famous as a First World War hospital ship) idyllic farming and harvesting scenes, Wellington harbour in 1908, flax being shipped out of Auckland and examples of a wide variety of homesteads available to the hard working immigrant. Shown here is the booklet together with one of the images therein, optimistically described as “a typical New Zealand suburban home”. R24711129 www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24711129 For more information email Research.Archives@dia.govt.nz For updates on our On This Day series and news from Archives New Zealand, follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/ArchivesNZ Material supplied by Archives New Zealand. |
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