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2 unusual facts about New Zealand Company


Dillon Bell

When his family ran into financial problems, his father's cousin, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, managed to secure Bell a position as a clerk in the New Zealand Company's head office in London.

New Zealand Company

Hobson sent his Colonial Secretary, Willoughby Shortland, and some soldiers, to Port Nicholson to raise the Union flag and put an end to what his administration perceived as a challenge to British sovereignty–a "colonial council", complete with primitive legal institutions, headed by Wakefield and Smith.


St Mary's College, Wellington

Part of the land on which the school is situated was donated by Lord Petre, the 11th Baron Petre (1793-1850), who was a director of the New Zealand Company and whose family seat Thorndon Hall in Essex was an important centre of Catholic Recusancy from the time of Queen Elizabeth I.


see also

Colonial Sugar Refining Company

Chelsea Sugar Refinery - the New Zealand company formed by Colonial Sugar

New Zealand Superannuation Fund

The Fund has recently had a high profile in New Zealand after it and Infratil (a publicly listed New Zealand company) acquired Royal Dutch Shell's downstream assets in New Zealand, since renamed Z Energy.

PAC CT/4 Airtrainer

PAC's predecessor, AESL, derived the CT/4 from the earlier 4 seat prototype Victa Aircruiser, itself a development of the original Victa Airtourer two seat light tourer, 172 of which had been built in Australia from 1961 to 1966 before the rights to the Airtourer and Aircruiser were sold to the New Zealand company AESL, who built a total of 80 Airtourers at their factory at Hamilton in the 1970s.