Above Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the colonising con-man who devised his scheme for New Zealand’s settlement while in prison for abducting an heiress. To launch his venture he sold 100,000 acres of land he didn’t own and had never even seen.
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Kaea, Issue 2, 1 March 1980, Page 28
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40Above Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the colonising con-man who devised his scheme for New Zealand’s settlement while in prison for abducting an heiress. To launch his venture he sold 100,000 acres of land he didn’t own and had never even seen. Kaea, Issue 2, 1 March 1980, Page 28
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