The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King

Author:Michael King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Penguin Group
Published: 2010-12-21T16:00:00+00:00

[1] As a result of this law, New Zealand was indeed for some years a ‘land without strikes’. See page 308.

[2] As far as conditions in Auckland were concerned, a poem published in the New Zealand Herald on 11 March 1882 commented:

The foul putrescence lieth on each side of the street,

And in each festering backyard, slops swelter in the heat.

The cess-pits belch forth gases on fever-laden air,

And fever-damp uprolleth from sewer-gullies there.

[3] Seacliff, like some other asylums in the country – Sunnyside, Avondale, Cherry Farm – had the kind of name that suggests a rural estate or cheerful holiday resort; this served to mask what some patients experienced as the horror of having to live in such institutions.

[4] Hocken and the bibliophile Alexander Turnbull would leave valuable collections of books and manuscripts that became the bases for the country’s premier research libraries, the Hocken Library, which opened in Dunedin in 1910, and the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, which opened in 1920.

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