title: Schooling the labouring classes: children, families, and learning in Wellington, 1840-1845

authors: Middleton, Sue

subjects: history

abstract: Published in London between 1839 and 1852 and aligned with the commercial
objectives of the New Zealand Company, the New Zealand Journal included letters from
emigrants. This paper studies letters written by a small cohort of rural labourers who
emigrated from Ham House in Surrey to Wellington in 1841. Following Dorothy Smith,
I read them as ethnographic data, interrogating them in relation to ruling-class texts
including Company records, newspaper reports and correspondence between capitalists,
professionals and politicians. The labourers’ letters depict capital-labour (class) and
colonial (race) relations in embodied form. The everyday actualities of their activities
were co-ordinated by extra-local social relations of colonialism and flows of capital and
labour. Their schooling in England had been designed to ‘keep them in their place’. With
reference to the sparse archival resources remaining from the first years of
commercially-driven settlement, before there was an apparatus of state, I consider how
changing material conditions in the settlement enabled and constrained learning
opportunities for these labourers’ children.

text: Schooling the labouring classes: children, families, and learning in Wellington, 1840-1845 Published in London between 1839 and 1852 and aligned with the commercial
objectives of the New Zealand Company, the New Zealand Journal included letters from
emigrants. This paper studies letters written by a small cohort of rural labourers who
emigrated from Ham House in Surrey to Wellington in 1841. Following Dorothy Smith,
I read them as ethnographic data, interrogating them in relation to ruling-class texts
including Company records, newspaper reports and correspondence between capitalists,
professionals and politicians. The labourers’ letters depict capital-labour (class) and
colonial (race) relations in embodied form. The everyday actualities of their activities
were co-ordinated by extra-local social relations of colonialism and flows of capital and
labour. Their schooling in England had been designed to ‘keep them in their place’. With
reference to the sparse archival resources remaining from the first years of
commercially-driven settlement, before there was an apparatus of state, I consider how
changing material conditions in the settlement enabled and constrained learning
opportunities for these labourers’ children.

year: 2008-06

title: Analysing seasonal changes in New Zealand's largest inbound market

authors: Lim, Christine

subjects: international travel demand

abstract: The purpose of the paper is to analyse seasonal changes in tourism demand by New Zealand's major tourist source market, Australia, for the period 1979-2005. A time series regression model is used to test the significance of monthly seasonality. By examining sub-periods that are based on major exogenous events which have had significant impacts on international travel demand to New Zealand, seasonal distributions and intra-year seasonal variations over the 27-year period are subsequently estimated using normalized seasonal indices, coefficient of variation, seasonal ratio and the Gini coefficient. Compared with the findings of previous studies for other countries, the empirical evidence suggests that, while the tourism flow distribution or concentration is not significant for New Zealand, the seasonality in tourism demand by New Zealand's largest inbound market has changed over time.

text: Analysing seasonal changes in New Zealand's largest inbound market The purpose of the paper is to analyse seasonal changes in tourism demand by New Zealand's major tourist source market, Australia, for the period 1979-2005. A time series regression model is used to test the significance of monthly seasonality. By examining sub-periods that are based on major exogenous events which have had significant impacts on international travel demand to New Zealand, seasonal distributions and intra-year seasonal variations over the 27-year period are subsequently estimated using normalized seasonal indices, coefficient of variation, seasonal ratio and the Gini coefficient. Compared with the findings of previous studies for other countries, the empirical evidence suggests that, while the tourism flow distribution or concentration is not significant for New Zealand, the seasonality in tourism demand by New Zealand's largest inbound market has changed over time.

year: 2008

title: Te Ahi Kā

authors: Temara, Pou

subjects: Ahi kā

abstract: Ko te urutaumatua o tēnei tuhinga, ko te matapaki i te ahi kā. He aha tēnei tikanga? I pēhea i ara ake ai? He aha ōna mātāpono, ōna taipitopito? Koia te tūāpapa mō te tuhinga nei. Tuarua, ko te wānanga i te tikanga Māori me ōna rerenga pērā i te whakapapa. Ko te pātai ka puta i tēnei wāhanga o te wānanga ko tēnei nā, he aha te wāhi o te whakapapa ki te ahi kā? Ko te ngako o tēnei tuhinga ko te wetewete i te tikanga ahi kā kia whai tikanga ai te whakataukī nei, ‘ko te ahi kā te mana o te hapū ki te whenua’.

text: Te Ahi Kā Ko te urutaumatua o tēnei tuhinga, ko te matapaki i te ahi kā. He aha tēnei tikanga? I pēhea i ara ake ai? He aha ōna mātāpono, ōna taipitopito? Koia te tūāpapa mō te tuhinga nei. Tuarua, ko te wānanga i te tikanga Māori me ōna rerenga pērā i te whakapapa. Ko te pātai ka puta i tēnei wāhanga o te wānanga ko tēnei nā, he aha te wāhi o te whakapapa ki te ahi kā? Ko te ngako o tēnei tuhinga ko te wetewete i te tikanga ahi kā kia whai tikanga ai te whakataukī nei, ‘ko te ahi kā te mana o te hapū ki te whenua’.

year: 2012-05