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• Early years

• A growing settlement: 1825 to 1839

• British immigration and the New Zealand Company

• The immigrants: 1840 to 1852

• Settlement in the provinces: 1853 to 1870

• Auckland’s immigrants: 1853 to 1870

• Miners

• The great migration: 1871 to 1885

• The immigrants of the great migration

• Depression: 1885 to 1900

• Migration: 1900 to 1914

• Between the wars

• The Second World War: 1939 to 1945

• Assisted immigration revives: 1946 to 1975

• The end of a 'white New Zealand' policy

• Many leave, fewer arrive: 1975 to 1991

• Multi-cultural New Zealand: 1991 onwards

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