NZ

• Churches, schools, libraries abounded; Dunedin had a university by 1869
• They tended not to meddle too much with the wildlife of the areas where they settled, Scottish settlers left Otago treeless, unlike the neighbouring province of canterbury, occupied by English and extensively afforested.
• Scot John Ross and Robert Glendinning  

  Set up a wholesale drapery business in Dunedin (1860s)

  The business developed into clothing manufacturing

  They bought sheep farms and developed clothing factories, dominating the textile industry.

  Ross used some of his money to help the Presbyterian church set up a training college for its ministers in NZ
• Henry Nicol 

  In 1843 he set up a shipyard in Auckland

  1843 - 1887 : over 180 ships were built in the company shipyard
• David Munro

  Introduced sheep from Australia in 1842 and within 20 years he had 14,000 sheep on his farm
• Thomas Brydone

  Helped found the New Zealand and Australia Land Company which in 1882 sent the first ever export of frozen meat from New Zealand to London on the ship Dunedin.
• The Scottish Education Act of 1872 became the basis for NZ’s education system, introduced in 1877
• Dalrymple was behind NZ’s first school for girls, which opened in Otago in 1871. A fellow Scot was the first principle of the school.
• 1875: the first medical school in NZ was opened in Otago, its first head of medicine was a Scot called John Scott.
• New Zealand recognised new year’s day as a holiday by the late 19th century
• Caledonian Societies set up:

  Pipe Bands – New Zealand Pipe Band Championships

  Scottish surnames common – Campbell and MacDonald

  Scottish foods  part of New Zealand diet – porridge, scones
• Scots had a positive relationship with the Māori people in the Otago area. There is some evidence that the Māori helped early Scottish colonists survive the harsh winters of 1848 and 1849 by supplying them with potatoes and pork.
• In 1872 conflict broke out, causing the Maoir Wars.  
• Donald Maclean 

  Learned the Māori’s language. He made a political career, and rose to be Native Minister in 1877 - 80. He was the first to take the job seriously, trying to ensure that white colonists always regularly purchased their land from the chiefs, and that these sold it of their own free will.
• Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon 

  Appointed as governor of NZ between 1880 and 1882. He sided with the Māori in land disputes, which brought him into conflict with his own government in NZ.
• There is evidence of intermarriage between Scots and Māori, with more than one instance of a Māori with the Scottish last name Stewart.