Moriarty, Julia Mary2011-05-312022-10-262011-05-312022-10-2619671967https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/24629This is not a history of music in Wellington, but an endeavour, by using music as the theme, to find a pathway to the past in order to learn something of everyday life in early Wellington. The directors of the New Zealand Company in 1846 made this statement in the Company's twenty-third report: The aim of this company is not confined to mere emigration, but is... to transplant English society with its various gradations in due proportions, carrying out our laws, customs, associations, habits, manners, feelings - everything of England, in short, but the soil. Miller, H. New Zealand. p. 143.pdfen-NZCivilisationMusicWellington historyText