New Zealand was not always the promised land for Irish immigrants. The graffiti on R. H. Wyche's shoemaking shop suggests that he preferred Irish landlords to the 'creeping commissio[n]ers' and 'crawling rangers' of the Wellington Land Board.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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