Posted by alexandra_k on August 23, 2018, at 18:20:32
In reply to Re: balance of power » alexandra_k, posted by sigismund on August 22, 2018, at 16:47:42
> There is also the train station. The foyer is lovely.
Hmm. Perhaps I should take a look.
> It's very Presbyterian. No Catholic cathedral in the Octagon.
That never occurred to me. I guess... That's how Presbyterian I am. I forget a about them Catholics.
> Is it in Wellington I saw a plaque for Edwin Gibbon Wakefied? (There is something to be said for being a prisoner island, it makes the criminal enterprise more transparent.)
I don't know about that. I remember learning about him in Law. The New Zealand Company. I was surprised to learn that England took a rather more laid back approach to, uh, 'intefering' or regulating New Zealand than I had been led to believe before. It seemed to me on the basis of readings that it was costing England more than anything else. Trying to regulate the activity of their own criminals. E.g., before land sales needed to go through the crown there were even more dodgey sales. Maaori didn't really have a conception of selling land. They didn't really have a conception of people having land that they were not able to access / range over. They weren't agricultural (despite us hearing about kumara plantations - the ones I"ve seen looked like places you conveniently throw your scraps and stuff just grows there). They didn't have this idea of people building fences around their personal property. Of grazing livestock or crops that wasn't there for others to simply take what they wanted from it.
Perhaps. I'm no scholar on NZ history.
> I had not known that Dunedin is a contraction of the Gaelic for Edinburgh.
Yeah. Scottish colony was Dunedin. New Edinburgh. So, the University. New Zealand's first University. So the training of Medical Doctors and, I guess, maybe even the whole Medical System, here, is more Scottish than English.
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