Events In History
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22 September 1906Domestic workers call for 68-hour weekThe labour reforms of the Liberal government had earned New Zealand a reputation as a 'working man's paradise'. But what about working women? A 68-hour working week hardly seemed an unreasonable demand. Read more...
Articles
Assisted immigration, 1947-75
New Zealand is a country of immigrants. Wave after wave of peoples have settled here: Polynesian, British, European, Asian.
- Page 2 - Peopling New ZealandThe Labour Department was responsible for setting up and administering the assisted immigration
Notes for My Successor
Until the late 1960s New Zealand's Governors-General were British, mainly minor aristocrats or admirals or generals.
- Page 4 - Staff and servantsLord Bledisloe (1930–35) felt that senior staff 'should be fond of dancing and of games and sport of all kinds, as these accomplishments appeal to people here I would not have
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Main image: Domestic staff, Government House, Auckland, 1903
Domestic staff, with the dog 'Shot', were photographed by H.J. Schmidt at Government House Auckland in 1903.
