New Zealand

Question 1

Two people

Answer 1

John Ross and Robert Glendinning Set up wholesale drapery place in Dunedin in 1860s then bought sheep farms + developed clothing factories dominating the textile industry

Question 2

Ministers

Answer 2

John Ross used his wealth from the drapery,sheep and textile business to set up a training college for presbyterian ministers

Question 3

Boats

Answer 3

In 1843 Henry Nicol set up a shipyard in Auckland and by 1887 the company had built over 180 ships

Question 4

Indigenous people

Answer 4

Donald Maclean learned the māori language and became native minister (1877-80) and campaigned for māori rights

Question 5

Schools

Answer 5

James MacAndrew set up an estimated 100 schools in Otago including the University of Dunedin

Question 6

Education

Answer 6

Learmonth Dalrymple set up New Zealand’s first school for girls and it opened in 1871

Question 7

Farming

Answer 7

many Scot’s were skilled farmers and influenced the development of sheep and mixed farming

Donald Reid started as a farm labourer but when he died in 1919 he had an estate of 6300 acres

Question 8

Medicine

Answer 8

1875 the first medical school in NZ was set up in Otago and the first head of medicine was a Scot called John Scot, professor of physiology was John Malcom fellow countryman