The New Zealand Journal of History

The New Zealand
Journal of History
Vol.27, No. I April, 1993
CONTENTS
Nicholas Tarling The World Wars and the British in Southeast
Asia 3-
Sean Brawley 'No "White Policy" in NZ': Fact and Fiction
in New Zealand's Asian Immigration Record,
1946-1978 16-
Bronwyn Dalley
Prisons without Men: the Development of a
Separate Women's Prison in New Zealand 37-
Adrienne Simpson
Opera in the Antipodes. A Forgotten Aspect
of the Nineteenth-century Trans-Tasman
Entertainment Industry 61-
Simon Ville The Coastal Trade of New Zealand Prior to
World War One 75-
Reviews 90
W.J. Gardner, A Pastoral Kingdom Divided: Cheviot, 1889-94 (Brad Patterson);
Krik
Olssen, The Red Feds: Revolutionary Industrial Unionism and the New Zealand Federation
of Labour 1908-1913 (Jack Vowles);
John I Martin and Kerry Taylor (eds). Culture and
the Labour Movement. Essays in New Zealand Labour History (John Leckie);
David
Thomson, Selfish generations? The Ageing of New Zealand's Welfare State (Harvey
Franklin);
Mark Francis, Governors and Settlers: Images of Authority in the British
Colonies, 1820-80 (David Hamer);
Patricia Burns, edited by Henry Richardson. Fatal
Success. A History of the New Zealand Company (Rollo Arnold);
David Hamer and Robert
Nicholls (eds). The Making of Wellington 1800-1914 (Graeme Dunstall);
Russell Stone,
The Making of Russell McVeagh: The first 125 years of the practice of Russell McVeagh
McKenzie Bartleet & Co. 1863-1988 (Judith Bassett);
Jeffrey Sissons, Te Waimana: The
Spring of Mana (Greg Dening);
M.P.K. Sorrenson, Manifest Duty, The Polynesian Society
over 100 years. (J.M.R. Owens);
Elvin Hatch, Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural
New Zealand, (Ian a personal Carter); excursion Patrick O'Farrell. (Rory Sweetman); Vanished Stephen Kingdoms: Henningham, Irish Australia France and

the South Pacific: A Contemporary History (Hugh Laracy);
J.S.C. Dumont d'Urville,
translated by Carol Legge, The New Zealanders: A Story of Austral Lands (Giselle M.
Byrnes);
D. McGill. The Guardians at the Gate. The History of the New Zealand Customs
Department (Simon Ville);
W. David Mclntyre. The Significance of the Commonwealth,
1985-90 (Nicholas Tarling):
Jeffrey Grey and Jeff Doyle (eds). Vietnam: War myth and
memory (Laurie Barber);
Judith Smart and Tony Wood (eds). An Anzac Muster: War and
Society in Australia and New Zealand 1914-19 and 1939-45 (Laurie Barber);
John
Dunmore. Who's Who in Pacific Navigation (K.R. Howe); P
UNivERSir- or AUCKLAND compiled and edited at the
Correspondence
N.Z. GLASS CASE 119
Alexander Turnbull I .ibrary. National Library of New Zealand, The National Register of
OO 5
Archives and Manuscripts in New Zealand (Graham Hucker);
FEB W
Te Ahukaramu Charles
N S3
Royal, Te Haurapa: An Introduction to Researching Tribal Histories and Traditions
(Michael Reilly); Gavin McLean. Local History. A Short Guide to Researching, Writing
LISFJARY
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and Publishing a Local History (Margaret McClure).
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Canterbury Historical Association
The J.M. Sherrard Awards in New Zealand Regional History
Eleventh judging,
in 1990 and 1991
1992. for publications listed in the National Bibliography
Award set up to commemorate the work of the late John (Jock) McAra
Sherrard. author of Kaikouro, A History of the District (1966), to encourage
studies in New Zealand regional history.
Awards for 1992
Major Award:
Peter T re me wan
Awards:
W.H. Gibbons
French Akctroa (Canterbury University Press.
Christchurch, 1990)
The Rangitaiki, 1890-1990: Settlement and
Drainage... (Whakatane and District Historical
Society, Auckland. 1990)
James Watson Along the hills: A History of the Heathcote Road
Board and the Heathcote County Council. 1864-
1989 (Heathcote County Council, Christhurch,
1989)

The New Zealand
Journal of History
Vol.27, No.2 October, 1993
CONTENTS
Raewyn Dalziel Editorial 125
Angela Ballara
Wāhine Rangatira: Māori Women of Rank
and their Role in the Women's Kotahitanga
Movement of the 1890s 127
Barbara
Brookes
A Weakness for Strong Subjects: The
Women's Movement and Sexuality 140
Roberta
Nicholls
The Collapse of the Early National Council
of the Women of New Zealand, 1896-1906 157
Megan Hutching Mothers of the World: Women, Peace and
Arbitration in Early Twentieth-Century
New Zealand 173
Sandra Wallace
Members for Everywoman? The Campaign
Promises of Women Parliamentary Candidates 187
Melanie
Nolan
'Politics Swept Under a Domestic Carpet'?
Fracturing Domesticity and the Male
Breadwinner Wage: Women's Economic
Citizenship, 1920s-1940s 199
Obituary
218
Reviews
Anne Salmond, Two World's, First Meetings between Maori and Europeans 1642-1772
(Caroline Ralston); Charlott^flVIacaonald, Merimeri Penfold and Bridget Williams (eds),
The Book of New Zealand Women: Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa (Giselle Byrnes); Judith
Devaliant. A Biography. Kate Sheppard. The Fight for Women's Votes in New Zealand —
224

The life of the woman who led the struggle (Margaret Tennant); Jane Tolerton, Ettie: A Life
ofEttie Rout (Judith Smart); Barbara Brookes, Charlotte Macdonald and Margaret Tennant
(eds), Women in History 2 (Patricia Grimshaw); Audrey Oldfield, Woman Suffrage in
Australia. A Gift or a Struggle? (Raewyn Dalziel); Linda Brydcr (ed.),/l Healthy Country:
Essays on the Social History of Medicine in New Zealand (Philippa Mein Smith); Annabel
Cooper, The Not So Poor: An Autobiography (Anna Green); Gillian Boddy and Jacqueline
Matthews (eds). Disputed Ground: Robin Hyde, Journalist (P.J. Gibbons); Elsie Locke,
Peace People: A History of Peace Activities in New Zealand (Ross Galbreath); lan
Mackersey, Jean Batten: The Garho of the Skies (Susan Grogan); Mary Collie-Holmes,
Where the Heart Is: A History of Barnardo's in New Zealand IK66-I9V1 (Shayleen
Thompson); Neil Begg. The Intervening Years: a New Zealand account of the years
between the last two visits of Hal ley's comet (Dorothy Page).
Research 242
TE IWI MAORI PRIZE
This prize has been established by Professor Pool with royalties from the
publication of his book Te I wi Maori and is to be awarded annually to the young
researcher who, in the opinion of the Selection Panel, has carried out the most
meritorious research in the area of population studies.
The criteria for the prize are as follows:
1. That any young researcher, graduate or postgraduate student, university
junior lecturer or lecturer, or person of roughly equivalent grades in the public
service, private sector or with community groups be eligible;
2. That the research be in the area of population studies, and that the interpretation
of this term be reasonably broad (e.g historical research on iwi. labour
force analyses, housing, need and demand, school retention, mortality,
fertility, migration, the study of society in relation to the environment, etc.,
etc.);
3. That the research be from any relevant discipline;
4. That the research have a significant quantitative component or have quantitative
applications (e.g. Whakapapa analysis permitting family reconstitution
techniques leading to the possibility of computing conventional demographic
measures would be eligible);
5. That the research output be available to a wider audience (e.g. published
articles, a thesis available on loan from libraries).
The value of the prize is $300.00 and applications should be forwarded no later
than 30 June to:
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University of Waikato
Private Bag 3105
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