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Pacific History There was a definite place in the southern dominions for the periodical Historical Studies: Australia and New Zealand, the second volume of which is to hand from the Melbourne; University Press. It is intended to'publish twice-yearly meanwhile, and the Editorial Board notes with particular gratification the reception in the United States of the first number, which makes it clear "that Australian, New Zealand, and South Pacific history has how become a common interest and study of all the Englishspeaking peoples" Interestingly enough, an American, Dr C. S. Blackton, is the.author of the article in this issue on New Zealand's attitude towards the Anti-Transportation movement which so exercised Australian opinion in the 'forties arid fifties. New Zealand consistently opposed penal settlement proposals. Dr Blackton finds that in 1842 a boatload of boys from an English reformatory landed in New Zealand, and all were immediately pardoned, in effect landing as free immigrants.
< The result oi a two days' sale of books and manuscripts given on behalf- of the Red Cross at Christie's was eminently satisfactory.- Just over 7000 guineas for almost exactly' 500 lots was obtained. ' s
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24492, 28 December 1940, Page 4
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