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1 THE NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF HISTORY Volumes THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND

2 EDITOR: Keith Sinclair ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Judith Bassett Judith Binney M. P. K. Sorrenson Nicholas Tarling REVIEW EDITOR: Russell Stone BUSINESS MANAGER: Raewyn Dalziel EDITORIAL ADVISERS D. A. HAMER Victoria University of Wellington JEANINE GRAHAM University of Waikato w. D. MclNTYRE University of Canterbury MARGARET TENNANT Massey University ERIK OLSSEN University of Otago F. L. w. WOOD Victoria University of Wellington w. H. OLIVER Department of Internal Affairs The New Zealand Journal of History is published twice yearly, in April and October, by the University of Auckland. Subscription rates payable in advance, post free: Overseas NZ$12.00 Domestic $10.00 Subscriptions and all business correspondence should be addressed to the Business Manager, New Zealand Journal of History, University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand. Back numbers available: $4.00 N.Z. per issue in New Zealand and overseas.

3 INDEX This index is in three parts. In Part I articles and notes are indexed by author. In Part II reviews are indexed by author of the work reviewed. The reviewer's name is in brackets. Part III indexes Obituaries. PART I ARNOLD, ROLLO. Yeomen and Nomads: New Zealand and the Australasian Shearing Scene, , 18, 2, BOLITHO, D. G. Some Financial and Medico-Political Aspects of the New Zealand Medical Profession's Reaction to the Introduction of Social Security, 18, 1, BROOKES, BARBARA. Housewives' Depression. The Debate over Abortion and Birth Control in the 1930s, 15, 2, BRYDER, LINDA. 'Lessons' of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Auckland, 16, 2, BURGESS, MICHAEL. Imperial Federation: Continuity and Change in British Imperial Ideas, , 17, 1, CAMPBELL, CHERYL Y. Archivists and Historians: How Can We Assist Each Other? 19, 2, COOKSON, J. E. Illiberal New Zealand: The Formation of Government Policy on Conscientious Objection, , 17, 2, DAVISON, GRAEME. Slicing Australian History. Reflections on the Bicentennial History Project, 16, 1, FAIRBURN, MILES. Local Community or Atomized Society? The Social Structure of Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, 16, 2, GALT, MARGARET Doing Welt for Bella: Foreign Mortgagees in the New Zealand Financial System, , 18, 1, GRIGG, A. R. Prohibition and Women: The Preservation of an Ideal and a Myth, 17, 2, GRIGG, A. R. Prohibition, The Church and Labour. A Programme for Social Reform , 15, 2, HALL, BOB. Land for the Landless. Settlement of the Otekaike Estate in North Otago 1908, 19, 1, JACKSON, HUGH. Churchgoing in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, 17, 1, KEARSLEY, G. W., HEARN, T. J., and BROOKING, T. W. H. Land Settlement and Voting Patterns in the Otago Provincial Council , 18, 1, LECKIE, JACQUELINE. In Defence of Race and Empire: The White New Zealand League at Pukekohe, 19, 2, LINEHAM, P. J. Freethinkers in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, 19, 1, McCRAW, DAVID. Reluctant Ally. New Zealand's Entry into the Vietnam War, 15, 1,

4 McGEORGE, COLIN. Hear Our Voices We Entreat: Schools and the 'Colonial Twang' , 18, 1, McINTYRE, W. DAVID. Imperial Jubilee: W. P. Morrell's Contributions to Imperial History, 16, 1, MARTIN, JOHN. Whither the Rural Working Class in Nineteenth- Century New Zealand? 17, 1, MAYER, MICHAEL S. America Between the Wars: The Seventh Form American Option Revised, 19, 2, MULGAN, R. J. Machiavelli, Aristotle and Pocock A Question of Evidence, 15, 1, OLSSEN, ERIK. Truby King and the Plunket Society. An Analysis of a Prescriptive Ideology, 15, 1, OLSSEN, ERIK. The Seamen's Union and Industrial Militancy, , 19, 1, PHILLIPS, J. O. C. Rugby, War and the Mythology of the New Zealand Male, 18, 2, PLUMRIDGE, LIBBY. The Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition: Christchurch Labour and Working-Class Culture, 19, 2, PUGH, MICHAEL C. Doctrinaires on the Right: The Democrats and Anti- Socialism, , 17, 2, RE AY, PARRY. History for Schoolteachers: Seventeenth-Century England, 18, 2, ROBERTSON, R. T. Government Responses to Unemployment in New Zealand, , 16, 1, ROCKEY, JOHN. An Australasian Utopist. Robert Pemberton F.R.S.L., The Last of the Self-Confessed Owenites and the Last of the World Makers, 15, 2, ROSS, R. M. Evolution of the Melanesian Bishopric, 16, 2, SANDERSON, KAY. Maori Christianity on the East Coast, , 17, 2, SHARPE, MAUREEN. Anzac Day in New Zealand , 15, 2, STENHOUSE, JOHN. 'The Wretched Gorilla Damnification of Humanity': The 'Battle' between Science and Religion over Evolution in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, 18, 2, SUTTON, DOUGLAS G. The Whence of the Moriori, 19, 1, TARLING, NICHOLAS. The Wars of British Succession, 15, 1, TENNANT, MARGARET. Elderly Indigents and Old Men's Homes, , 17, 1, TRAINOR, LUKE. Historians as Imperialists. Some Roots of British Imperial History , 15, 1, VOWLES, JACK. Ideology and the Formation of the New Zealand Labour Party: Some New Evidence, 16, 1, WYNN," GRAEME. Reflections on the Writing of New Zealand History, 18, 2,

5 PART II ABBOTT, JOHN LAWRENCE. John Hawkesworth: Eighteenth-Century Man of Letters (E. H. McCormick), 18, 2, ALI, AHMED. Plantation to Politics: Studies on Fiji Indians (Barrie Macdonald), 16, 2, ARNOLD, ROLLO. The Farthest Promised Land, English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s (Charlotte Erickson), 16, 2, BASSETT, MICHAEL. Three Party Politics in New Zealand (Erik Olssen), 18, 1, BEDGGOOD, DAVID. Rich and Poor in New Zealand. A Critique of Class, Politics and Ideology (Keith Sinclair), 15, 2, BERTRAM, JAMES (ed.) The Letters of Thomas Arnold the Younger (Hugh Jackson), 17, 1, BLOOMFIELD, G. T. New Zealand: A Handbook of Historical Statistics (R. C. J. Stone), 19, 2, BRAILSFORD, BARRY. Greenstone Trails: The Maori Search for Pounamu (D. R. Simmons), 19, 1, BROOKING, T. W. H. A History of Dentistry in New Zealand (Michael Belgrave), 16, 1, BUNKLE, PHILLIDA and HUGHES, BERYL (eds.) Women in New Zealand Society (Patricia Grimshaw), 16, 2, BURNS, PATRICIA. Te Rauparaha: A New Perspective (Ann Parsonson), 16, 2, CHAMBERS, W. A. Samuel Ironside in New Zealand, (John Owens), 17, 2, CHAPPLE, GEOFF. Rewi Alley of China (Paul Clark), 16, 1, CIZMIC, IVAN. Iz Dalmacije u Novi Zeland (H. P. Stoffel), 17, 1, CLARK, C. M. H. A History of Australia, vol. 5 (John Rickard), 17, 1, CONNELL, R. W. and IRVING, T. H. Class Structure in Australian History (Hugh Jackson), 15, 1, CULLEN, M. J. Lawfully Occupied: The Centennial History of the Otago District Law Society (Graeme Dunstall), 15, 2, DEMPSTER, W. J. Patrick Matthew and Natural Selection (G. J. Tee), 18, 1, DENING, GREG. Islands and Beaches. Discourse on a Silent Land: Marquesas (K. R. Howe), 15, 2, DENOON, DONALD. Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere (I. G. Bertram), 18, 2, EASTON, BRIAN. Social Policy and the Welfare State in New Zealand (Keith Sinclair), 15, 2, EDMOND, LAURIS (ed.) The Letters of A. R. D. Fairburn (Keith Sinclair), 16, 2, ELDRED-GRIGG, STEVAN. A New History of Canterbury (Tom Brooking), 17, 1, ELDRED-GRIGG, STEVAN. Pleasures of the Flesh Sex and Drugs in Colonial New Zealand (F. B. Smith), 19, 2,

6 ELDRED-GRIGG, STEVAN. A Southern Gentry: New Zealanders who inherited the earth (M. D. N. Campbell), 15, 1, FAANIU, SIMATI et al. (ed. Hugh Laracy) Tuvalu: A History (Barrie Macdonald), 19, 1, FARRELL, FRANK. International Socialism and Australian Labour (Len Richardson), 17, 2, GARRETT, JOHN. To Live Among the Stars: Christian Origins in Oceania (Hugh Laracy), 16, 2, GOODALL, MAAR1RE and GRIFFITHS, GEORGE. Maori Dunedin (Stephen O'Regan), 16, 2, GUSTAFSON, BARRY. Labour's Path to Political Independence (Erik Olssen), 15, 1, HALL, TIMOTHY. The Fall of Singapore 1942 (David Mclntyre), 18, 1, HANSON, ELIZABETH. The Politics of Social Security (Margaret Tennant), 15, 1, HANSON, F. ALLAN and HANSON, LOUISE. Counterpoint in Maori Culture (Roger Neich), 19, 1, HAWKE, G. R. Economics for Historians (James Holt), 15,2, HENDERSON, JOHN, JACKSON, KEITH and KENNAWAY, RICHARD (eds.) Beyond New Zealand: The Foreign Policy of a Small State (Keith Sinclair), 15, 2, HERVE, ROGER. Chance Discovery of Australia and New Zealand by Portuguese and Spanish Navigators between 1521 and 1528 (Bernardo Sa Nogueira), 19, 2, HOARE, MICHAEL E. (ed.) The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster (David Mackay), 18, 2, HOLLAND, R. F. Britain and the Commonwealth Alliance (W. David Mclntyre), 16, 1, HUDSON, W. J. and STOKES, H. J. W. (eds.) Documents on Australian Foreign Policy Volume IV: July 1940-June 1941 (W. David Mclntyre), 16, 1, HUNN, JACK KENT. Not Only Affairs of State: an Autobiography (James Holt), 17, 2, KAY, ROBIN (ed.) The Surrender and Occupation of Japan: Volume II (Tom Larkin), 17, 2, KEESING, ROGER and CORRIS, PETER. Lightning Meets the West Wind: The Malaita Massacre (Hugh Laracy), 17, 1, KING, MICHAEL. The Collector: A Biography of Andreas Reischek (Michael Hoare), 16, 1, LACEY, ROD. Our Young Men Snatched Away: Labourers in PNG's Colonial Economy (Hugh Laracy), 18, 2, 187. LAL, BRIJ V. Girmitiyas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians (Jacqueline Leckie), 19, 1, LAMBERT, GAIL and RON. An Illustrated History of Taranaki (Diane Northcote), 19, 1, 92-3.

7 LEVINE, STEPHEN I. The New Zealand Political System, Politics in a Small Society (Robert Chapman), 15, 2, LIMBRICK, WARREN E. (ed.) Bishop Selwyn in New Zealand, (David Hilliard), 19, 2, LOVEDAY, P., MARTIN, A. W. and PARKER, R. S. The Emergence of the Australian Party System (C. N. Connolly), 15, 1, MACDONALD, BARRIE. Cinderellas of the Empire: Towards a History of Kiribati and Tuvalu (Hugh Laracy), 18, 1, McGIBBON, I. C. Blue-Water Rationale: The Naval Defence of New Zealand (W. David Mclntyre), 15, 2, McINTYRE, W. DAVID (ed.) The Journal of Henry Sewell (Judith Bassett), 15, 1, McINTYRE, W. DAVID. The Rise and Fall of the Singapore Naval Base (Nicholas Tarling), 16, 1, MAMAK, ALEXANDER and ALI, AHMED, et al. Race, Class and Rebellion in the South Pacific (Barrie Macdonald), 16, 2, MARKS, SHULA and RICHARDSON, PETER (eds.) International Labour Migration, Historical Perspectives (Charles Perrings), 19, 2, MEAD, SIDNEY and KERNOT, BERNIE (eds.) Art and Artists in Oceania (Peter Crowe), 18, 2, MILNER, IAN. Milner of Waitaki: Portrait of the Man (W. L. Renwick), 18, 2, MOYNAGH, MICHAEL. Brown or White? A History of the Fiji Sugar Industry, (Steve Britton), 16, 1, MULGAN, RICHARD. Democracy and Power in New Zealand. A Study of New Zealand Politics (Jack Vowles), 19, 2, NATHAN, LAWRENCE D. As Old as Auckland (Russell Stone), 19, 1, 94. NATION, JOHN. Customs of Respect: The Traditional Basis of Fijian Communal Politics (Barrie Macdonald), 16, 2, OLIVER, W. H. (ed.) The Oxford History of New Zealand (Keith Sinclair), 16, 1, 68-9; (Richard Shannon), 69-72; (D. A. Hamer), 72-4; (Alan Ward), OLLIVIER, ISABEL and HINGLEY, CHERYL. Extracts from Journals Relating to the Visit to New Zealand of the French Ship St. Jean Baptiste in December 1769 under the Command of J. F. M. de Surville (G. S. Parsonson), 18, 1, PEARSON, DAVID G. Johnsonville: Continuity and Change in a New Zealand Township (Graeme Dunstall), 15, 2, PEARSON, BILL. Rifled Sanctuaries: Some Views of the Pacific Islands in Western Literature to 1900 (E. H. McCormick), 19, 1, PHILLIPS, JOCK and MACLEAN, CHRIS. In the Light of the Past Stained Glass Windows in New Zealand Houses (John Stacpoole), 19, 1, PHILLIPS, RODERICK. Divorce in New Zealand; a social history (Phillida Bunkle), 17, 1, The Polynesian Journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin, R. N. (Anthony Murray- Oliver), 18, 2,

8 PORTER, UNA B. (ed.) Growing Together. Letters Between Frederick John Cato and Frances Bethune, 1881 to 1884 (Raewyn Dalziel), 15, 2, PRITCHARD, GEORGE. The Aggressions of the French at Tahiti and Other Islands in the Pacific (Colin Newbury), 18, 1, REYNOLDS, HENRY. The Other Side of the Frontier. An Interpretation of the Aboriginal Response to the Invasion and Settlement of Australia (K. R. Howe), 17, 1, RICHARDSON, LEN and McINTYRE, W. DAVID (eds.) Provincial Perspectives. Essays in Honour of W. J. Gardner (David Hamer), 15, 1, RICKARD, JOHN. Class and Politics: New South Wales, Victoria and the Early Commonwealth, (C. N. Connolly), 15, 1, ROBBINS, KEITH. The First World War (Nicholas Tarling), 19, 2, ROCHE, STANLEY. The Red and the Gold: An Informal Account of the Waihi Strike, 1912 (Erik Olssen), 17, 2, SACK, PETER and CLARK, DYMPHNA (eds.) German New Guinea The Annual Reports; German New Guinea The Draft Annual Report for 1913-\4 (John A. Moses), 15, 2, SCARR, DERYCK (ed.) Fiji: The Three-Legged Stool. Selected Writings of Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna (M. P. K. Sorrenson), 19, 2, SCARR, DERYCK. Ratu Sukuna: Soldier, Statesman, Man of Two Worlds (M. P. K. Sorrenson), 19, 2, SHUKER, ROY. Educating the Workers? A History of the Workers' Education Association in New Zealand (Gary McCulloch), 19, 2, SINCLAIR, KEITH. A History of the University of Auckland, (J. G. A. Pocock), 17, 2, SORRENSON, M. P. K. Maori Origins and Migrations fjock Phillips), 15, 1, SPATE, O. H. K. Monopolists and Freebooters [The Pacific since Magellan: Volume II] (K. R. Howe), 18, 1, 76. STONE, R. C. J. Young Logan Campbell (G. R. Hawke), 17, 1, de SURVILLE, J. and LABE, G. (ed. John Dunmore). The Expedition of the St. Jean Baptiste to the Pacific (G. S. Parsonson), 18, 1, THOMPSON, ROGER C. Australian Imperialism in the Pacific: The Expansionist Era (Barrie Macdonald), 15, 1, TIWARI, KAPIL N. (ed.) Indians in New Zealand. Studies in a sub-culture (Jacqueline Leckie), 16, 2, WILTGEN, RALPH M. The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania (Hugh Laracy), 16, 2, PART III BASSETT, MICHAEL and DALZIEL, RAEWYN. Obituary: Jim Holt , 17, 2, BOYD, MARY. Obituary: Ruth Ross , 16, 2,

9 The New Zealand Journal of History Vol. 19, No. 1 April, 1985 CONTENTS D. G. Sutton The Whence of the Moriori 3 Erik Olssen Bob Hall The Seaman's Union and Industrial Militancy, Land for the Landless. Settlement of the Otekaike Estate in North Otago P. J. Lineham Freethinkers in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand. 61 Reviews Brij V. Lal, Girmitiyas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians. (Jacqueline Leckie), 82; F. Allan Hanson and Louise Hanson, Counterpoint in Maori Culture (Roger Neich), 84; Bill Pearson, Rifled Sanctuaries: Some Views of the Pacific Islands in Western Literature to (E. H. McCormick), 86; Jock Phillips and Chris Maclean, In the Light of the Past Stained Glass Windows in New Zealand Houses. (John Stacpoole), 87; Simati Faaniu et al, Tuvalu: A History (Barrie MacDonald), 89; Barry Brailsford, Greenstone Trails: The Maori Search for Pounamu. (D. R. Simmons), 91; Gail and Ron Lambert, An Illustrated History of Taranaki. (Diane Northcote), 92 Review Note 94 Correspondence 95 News 98

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11 The New Zealand Journal of History Vol. 19, No. 2 October, 1985 CONTENTS Jacqueline Leckie Libby Plumridge Cheryl Y. Campbell Michael S. Mayer In Defence of Race and Empire: The White New Zealand League at Pukekohe 103 The Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition: Christchurch Labour and Working-Class Culture 130 Archivists and Historians: How Can We Assist Each Other? 151 America Between the Wars: The Seventh Form American Option Revised 164 Reviews Roger Herve, Chance Discovery of Australia and New Zealand by Portuguese and Spanish Navigators between 1521 and 1528 (Bernardo Sa Nogueira), 182; Warren E. Limbrick, Bishop Selwyn in New Zealand, (David Hilliard), 183; Richard Mulgan, Democracy and Power in New Zealand. A Study of New Zealand Politics (Jack Vowles), 185; Roy Shuker, Educating the Workers? A History of the Workers' Education Association in New Zealand (Gary McCulloch), 186; Shula Marks and Peter Richardson, International Labour Migration. Historical Perspectives (Charles Perrings), 188; Keith Robbins, The First World War (Nicholas Tarling), 190; Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Pleasures of the Flesh Sex and Drugs in Colonial New Zealand (F. B. Smith), 191; Deryck Scarr, Ratu Sukuna: Soldier, Statesman, Man of Two Worlds, and Fiji: The Three-legged Stool. Selected Writings of Ratu Sir Lata Sukuna (M. P. K. Sorrenson), 193; G. T. Bloomfield, New Zealand: A Handbook of Historical Statistics (R. C. J. Stone), 194. Research 196 Correspondence 200

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