Asian migration
first Chinese immigrates: The first Chinese immigrates arrived in the mid 1850.
And during this time the NZ government had the thought to make NZ a fairer and better version of England in the south. The reason the Chinese were immigrating is because china was over populated, had land shortages, famine, drought, banditry, and peasant revolts.
a man named Edward Gibbon Wakefield who was planing on bringing Chinese immigrates into NZ as servants, shepherds, stock-keepers, mechanics and manual workers. He had to scratch this idea because when he opened it up to the public this was seen as a scheme to overrun the colony with ignorant slaves. the NZ goldmines is were the Chinese started working. They were recruited by the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce when European miners left Otago for the newly discovered West Coast goldmines. There were particular reasons for choosing Chinese people: they were thought to be hardworking, inoffensive, and willing to rework abandoned claims, and they preferred to return eventually to their homeland.
a man named Edward Gibbon Wakefield who was planing on bringing Chinese immigrates into NZ as servants, shepherds, stock-keepers, mechanics and manual workers. He had to scratch this idea because when he opened it up to the public this was seen as a scheme to overrun the colony with ignorant slaves. the NZ goldmines is were the Chinese started working. They were recruited by the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce when European miners left Otago for the newly discovered West Coast goldmines. There were particular reasons for choosing Chinese people: they were thought to be hardworking, inoffensive, and willing to rework abandoned claims, and they preferred to return eventually to their homeland.
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