The Trust Funds for religious and educational uses at Otago 1842 to 1866

[摘要] The Colony of Otago, as conceived by Thomas Burns and William Cargill, its chief protagonists, was to be a ;;Class;; settlement where the settlers would be united by membership of the Free Church of Scotland. Land was to be sold at a sufficiently high price to enable church activities, education, migration, public works and general administration to be subsidised, thus encouraging the ;;right;; sort of person to migrate from Scotland. The government of the Colony was to be based on Christian beliefs and the Pilgrim Fathers;; settlement in North America was often quoted as a model for these latter-day Christian settlers to imitate.Three hundred and forty seven settlers landed from the

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