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Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an end? "I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?" she said aloud. "I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth . . . yes, that's about the right distance . . . . How funny it will seem to come out among people that walk with their heads downward . . . I shall have to ask them . . . is this New Zealand? No, it'll never do to ask: perhaps I'll just see it written up somewhere." Down, down, down . . . . from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll England, 1865Many immigrants to New Zealand (NZ) give as their reason for choosing their new homeland, "We looked at the world map and found that NZ was about as far away as we could get from . . . " whatever frustrations, conflicts, and stresses motivated them to leave their homeland. While this scenic wonderland may seem the end of the world, it is by no means a backwater.
The first to make the journey travelled in nine large canoes from Hawaiki, approximately 950 AD, as part of the Great Fleet. These first ...