The New Zealand Journal of History Vol. 51, No 2 | October 2017 The New Zealand

The New Zealand Journal of History Journal of History

Vol. 51, No. 2 | October 2017 Editors: Barbara Brookes & Angela Wanhalla

Associate Editors: Charlotte Macdonald Deborah Montgomerie Kerry Taylor

Review Editor: Lyndon Fraser

Editorial Advisory Group: Michael Belgrave Massey University, Albany Cathy Coleborne University of Newcastle Bronwyn Dalley Public Historian Chris Hilliard University of Sydney Jim McAloon Victoria University, Wellington John McNeill Georgetown University Katie Pickles Greg Ryan Lincoln University Damon Salesa John Stenhouse

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Cover image: Staff of the Oamaru branch of Charles Begg & Co. Ltd unload pianos imported from England c. 1953, private collection. Reproduced with the kind permission of Garth Brindson.

ISSN 0028-8322 The New Zealand Journal of History

Vol.51, No.2 October 2017

CONTENTS

Raewyn Dalziel The Privileged Crime: Policing and 1 Prosecuting Bigamy in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

Michael Brown ‘A Piano in Every Other House’?: 26 The Piano in New Zealand Trade Statistics, 1877–1931

Tom Brooking Of Unfolding Dialectics, Shifting Paradigms 54 and Fickle Fashion: Seddon and the Historians

Susanne Klausen ‘There is a Row about Foetal Abnormality 80 Underway’: The Debate about Inclusion of a Eugenics Clause in the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act, 1977–1978

Simon Chapple New Zealand Numbers from Nearly Nowhere: 104 80,000 to 100,000 Māori circa 1769

Atholl Anderson Using Numbers from Somewhere Else: 122 Comment on Chapple’s ‘New Zealand Numbers from Nearly Nowhere: 80,000 to 100,000 Māori circa 1769’

Reviews (Books) 126 Miranda Johnson, The Land is our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State (Martin Fisher); Rachael Bell, Margaret Kawharu, Kerry Taylor, Michael Belgrave and Peter Meihana, eds, The Treaty on the Ground: Where we are Headed, and Why it Matters (Abby Suszko); Earle Howe, Völkner and Mokomoko: A 150 Year Quest for Justice and Reconciliation (Christopher van der Krogt); André Brett, Acknowledge No Frontier: The Creation and Demise of New Zealand’s Provinces, 1853–76 (Jim McAloon); Frances Steel, Oceania under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c.1870–1914 (James Watson); Raelene Frances and Bruce Scates, eds, Beyond Gallipoli: New Perspectives on Anzac (Glyn Harper); Malcolm McKinnon, The Broken Decade: Prosperity, Depression and Recovery in New Zealand 1928–39 (Geoff Watson); Judith A. Bennett and Angela Wanhalla, eds, Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific: The Children of Indigenous Women and US Servicemen, World War II (Kate Hunter); Bronwyn Labrum, Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s (Marguerite Hill); Charlotte Macdonald, Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935–1960 (Nadia Gush); Gautam Ghosh and Jacqueline Leckie, eds, Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand (Jatinder Mann).

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