New Zealand in the Making: A Study of Economic and Social Development

Condliffe, J. B.

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“…79 J.B. Condliffe highlights that public works such as railways made possible large-scale wheat farming in the early 1880s and enabled the rise of the frozen meat trade. 80 However, this is a peripheral point. Dowie and G.R.…”

Section: Railways Statecraft and Society: The Vogel Boom And Beyondmentioning

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A Limited Express or Stopping All Stations? Railways and Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

Brett¹

2013

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Railways have been a significant part of New Zealand life, yet their treatment in historiography often does not reflect this. I argue for a greater appreciation of railways, focusing upon their role in shaping the developing colony in the nineteenth-century. I introduce the existing literature to indicate contributions with which greater engagement is required and to identify directions requiring further research. The provincial ‘prehistory’ of railways preceding the Vogel boom of the 1870s requires particular emphasis; railways figured prominently in the settler imagination even though physical construction was minimal. I then show that the forces unleashed by Vogel were more than economic and offer tentative conclusions regarding the railway’s role within a range of fields. The railway was a site for contesting morality, it deepened the colonial project and identity, and it defined the contours of daily life.

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Section: Railways Statecraft and Society: The Vogel Boom And Beyondmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Limited Express or Stopping All Stations? Railways and Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

Brett¹

2013

JNZS

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“…Only in the 1930s did the correction of 'an untoward trend of prices [lay]… bare the fact that the productive organization of the Dominion had slackened considerably in the days of easy prosperity'. 51 British opinion-formers also often expressed disapproval at the highly-protected nature of the New Zealand market. When Federation of British Industry leaders met Prime Minister Sydney Holland in February 1952, they told him that a projected International Exhibition in New Zealand would be of little use 'if they suspected that New Zealand might reintroduce the extensive barriers against imports which were typical of the first 4 to 5 post war years'.…”

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Imagining New Zealand’s Economy in the Mid-Twentieth Century

O’Hara

2018

Imagining Britain’s Economic Future, c.1800–1975

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Few countries have been as closely studied, and fewer still so admired, as New Zealand. Americans in the Progressive era at the turn of nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw its ordered economy and concerted labour market as part of an inevitable future: as the radical academic Frank Parsons and his publisher C.F. Taylor put it in 1904, 'what is now history in New Zeland is prophesy for the rest of the world'. Parsons made himself an expert on the country's system of compulsory industrial arbitration; other experts, such as Richard T. Ely of the University of Wisconsin, worked on state ownership of infrastructure. 1 The journalist and activist Henry Demarest Lloyd, writing at the same time, was thought to aim at 'New Zealandising the rest of the world': most such schemes were not in the end transplanted to the USA, as most debates fastened on the idea of compulsion rather than the idea of economic reform which such controls aimed at: but debate often centred around the New Zealand 'model'. 2 In many other countries, for instance Japan, early socialists and reformers looked to that tiny South Pacific country as an example of how to adjust to rapid industrialization and labour unrest. The socialist thinker Abe Isō, no less than Parsons or Lloyd, thought that state ownership of the transport and energy sectors, and compulsory labour arbitration, boosted productivity and eliminated waste. 3 New Zealand's image in the nineteenth century -as an integral part of a wider Imperial whole, alternately a 'young' country that required guidance, a land whose settler-citizens might one day return to look upon Britain's own decline, and in booster literature A Land of Promise and An Earthly Paradisehas been relatively well covered. 4 Other stories are also familiar from the academic literature. New Zealand's image as a white settler community was successfully reforged by the end of the twentieth century, as a multiracial and multilingual society whose history of European treaty-making with Maori peoples -rather than outright expropriation -allowed indigenous peoples to reassert their rights and voice. 5 The mid-twentieth century, however, has been less well covered, especially as it is a period during which New Zealand began to evolve its own particular identity as a 'better' Britain shorn of the many class inequities and tensions many emigrants had rejected at 'home'. This chapter will explore the privileged place and exact location of New Zealand within the intellectual landscape of mid-twentieth century British policymakers, while not neglecting the key insight from recent transnational historiesthat ideas travelled both to and from the metropole, rather than just outwards from the United Kingdom, as well as independently around the Empire and Commonwealth. 6 Just as it has become clear that economic links between the two countries were much more complex than the mere transfer of capital from London and the return of food from New Zealand, so the diffusion of ideas throughout the Imperial system was more multifarious than mi...

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“…This enactive framework enables far more sense to be made of some dramatic shifts in contexts, relationships and landscapes during and since the era of crisis narratives. Indeed J.B. Condliffe (: 226) wrote of ‘an economic transformation’ with the growth of the cheese, butter and meat industries between 1890 and 1935. ‘The conquest of the soil was a remarkable achievement’: and it occurred mainly in the North Island, with the conversion of hill country to sheep farming and lower lying land to intensified dairying.…”

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New Zealand going global: The emerging relationships economy

Pawson

Perkins

2017

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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The paper examines the value-generating strategies used in some of New Zealand's primary activities in a rapidly changing trading context in which the countries of East Asia increasingly figure. These strategies range from scaling up volume, with a consequent conspicuous impact on rural landscapes, to innovative valueenhancing relationships linking producers, processors and consumers in processes which value landscapes for the contribution they make to provenance stories. Our argument is that higher-value strategies are necessarily more intensely collaborative and involve a pursuit of engaged relationships, especially between onshore producers and manufacturers and consumers at a distance. We term this collaborative form of strategising as 'the relationships economy'. We illustrate our argument using two case studies, dairying and merino. While there are great differences in scale between them, and dairying focuses significantly on volume-generating capacity, there are players in dairying who are adopting higher-value relationships-based approaches similar to those developed in the merino industry. The common thread connecting the case studies is that of intentional enactment, which echoes earlier periods in New Zealand's trading history when considerable work was undertaken by industry participants to create new markets for primary products.

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New Zealand in the Making: A Study of Economic and Social Development

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A Limited Express or Stopping All Stations? Railways and Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

A Limited Express or Stopping All Stations? Railways and Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

Imagining New Zealand’s Economy in the Mid-Twentieth Century

New Zealand going global: The emerging relationships economy

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