9. Immigrants were promised huge amounts of land as land in the UK was becoming to find due to increasing population.
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11. The numbers of American-born residents increased by 500 between 1861 and 1871.
12. A number of gold miners came from other European countries.
13. The most significant new group were the Chinese. There were 2,641 the greatest number for any non-British country. Virtually all were on the Otago goldfields
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15. In 1871 the non-Māori population was just over a quarter of a million, over the next 15 years more than that number (289,026) flooded into the country.