A Pastoral Kingdom Divided Cheviot, 1889-94

Author(s): W. J. Gardner

North & Mid Canterbury | Secondhand

Secondhand.


Cheviot Hills, an 84,000 acre North Canterbury sheep run, was a symbol of vast and impregnable wealth to nineteenth-century New Zealand. But in the 1890s it became the first 'big estate’ acquired by the Liberal Government and broken up into small farms. Jim Gardner, a former Canterbury University historian, tells the fascinating story of the first great battle of a government championing the rights of land-hungry New Zealanders. But it is also a story about the emerging supremacy of Cabinet government and the development of modern politics.

Near fine.


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Acknowledgements
Notes
List of tables and maps
Introduction


1. William Robinson and Cheviot Hills
2. The Robinson inheritance
3. Harry Bell – Between Wellington and Cheviot
4. Harry Bell – Between Sara and Emily
5. Towards a private sale of Cheviot
6. Towards the public sale of Cheviot
7. 'Bursting up the big estates'
8. 'Putting the small man on the land'
9. The decision to acquire Cheviot
10. Turning Cheviot into cash
11. The politics of Cheviot – Cabinet and parliament
12. The politics of Cheviot – A settlement for Canterbury
13. Preparing the site
14. The Cheviot settlement
15. The Cheviot settlers
16. Cheviots to come


Epilogue

General Fields

  • : 9780908912346
  • : Bridget Williams Books
  • : Bridget Williams Books
  • : January 1992
  • : 22.00 cmmm X 14.00 cmmm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : W. J. Gardner
  • : Paperback/Softcover
  • : en
  • : good
  • : 247
  • : B&W Photos & Illustrations