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The article discusses the occupational profiles of Scottish immigrants in New Zealand from 1840 through 1920. Scottish immigrants to New Zealand's former employment in Scotland in the agricultural sector, including as farmers and agricultural labourers, is discussed. The article frequently references censuses from New Zealand and Scotland and data from the New Zealand Society of Genealogists (NZSG).

On the last Saturday in January each year the small lower North Island settlement of Turakina (population less than 100) holds its annual Highland Games. First held in 1864, these Games are arguably New Zealand's longest-lived Caledonian ‘Gathering’ and the country's oldest sporting event on land. Further, of the diminishing number of Highland Games currently organised in New Zealand, those at Turakina appear to conform most closely to what might be regarded as a traditional format. This article explores the significance of ‘the Games’ in Turakina's calendar, outlines how they evolved and places the day-long celebration of Scottish culture in the context of similar occasions in the home country and elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Histories of British mental health policy and services in Georgian and Victorian times until recently have been strongly Anglocentric. In the nineteenth century, however, the Scottish system remained proudly distinctive within a broadly British framework. This article discusses elements of the Scottish model that were adopted in New Zealand up until the Second World War. Both countries retained a somatic orthodoxy and strongly institutional focus of care, within which efforts were made to open locked wards, liberalise parole and activate patients. The villa system, reception homes, voluntary admission and some ideas on staff training and deployment also owe something to contemporary Scottish practice. Scottish-born or Scottish-trained top administrators and medical staff did much to introduce these ideas from ‘hame’ to New Zealand's mental hospital service. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article considers the nexus between environment, health and colonial development through the migration, and visits, of Scottish-educated doctors to New Zealand. In arguing for the importance of local social, environmental and economic factors to explain their changing prominence within, in particular, the field of natural history, this article enriches and in some cases modifies the work of Richard Grove and John M. MacKenzie. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As counter to the narrow focus of a number of New Zealand historians on the prohibitionist activities of the Presbyterian Church, this article examines three significant Scottish contributions to the history of beer and brewing in New Zealand prior to 1940. These are: the reasons for and the nature of the disproportionate Scottish contribution to the export of British beer to New Zealand from the 1860s; the influence of leading Scottish-trained brewers such as Robert Whitson of Auckland and William Dawson of Dunedin; and links in the cause of anti-prohibition between the National Council of the Licensed Trade of New Zealand and the Edinburgh-based Anti-Prohibition Campaign Council. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]