Among friends : middle-class Tasmanians who moved to New Zealand, 1855-1875
Journal: UTAS Research Repository
Year: 2015

This thesis examines the movement of middle-class Tasmanians to New Zealand during the mid-nineteenth century. This group of people consisted primarily of entrepreneurs who were already crossing the Tasman Sea during the 1850s, and young professional men who left Tasmania in the wake of the Otago gold rush of the early 1860s. Neither ex-convicts nor gold seekers (nor whalers, soldiers, et al) are included in this research group ‚Äö- precisely those people who are currently found at the forefront