EARLY SETTLERS
A DEFINITION PROPOSED. The preparatVmof a register of early settlers for the National Historical Collections was discussed by the Board of Science and Art yesterday. A form had beein (prepared for icirculation among early settlers and their descendants. Tho preparation of sucfa registers was stated to have proceeded a long! way in Canterbury; and Otago, but relatively little mad been done in Wellington. The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. G. J. .Anderson) suggested the need ■of a definition of "earlv settlers." Ho ,■ thought that the date of* arrival in New Zealand should be not later thnn 1860. The advance of timo was making* a definition ,- necessary. The beard agreed to fix the limit at 1860 as far as the historical, collections are concerned. Professor Easterfield remarked that 1860 would be too .sarly for Westland, where the gold rushes had taken place 'in 1865.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 231, 24 June 1920, Page 5
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146EARLY SETTLERS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 231, 24 June 1920, Page 5
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