Chile
Barque: 768 tons
Captain: Birch
Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Macan
Sailed London September 12th 1872 - arrived Napier December 29th 1872

The Chile, an iron barque of 768tons, one of the old school, built in 1856, was purchased by the Shaw Savill Co., in 1860, and continued to trade to the Colony until 1886.  She had accomodation for about 250 passengers, and in her twenty years' service she must have landed many thousands of imigrants, who were distributed at nearly every port.
White Wings - Sir Henry Brett

This sailing of the Chile brought out, in the main, immigrants under the scheme operated by the contracting firm of John Brogden and Sons. Called Brogden's Navvies, they were brought out to New Zealand as part of a group of 2,172 English immigrants (1,298 able bodied men and their families) over a 9 month period from July 1872 to April 1873 to advance the development of a nation-wide railway system. All had been offered two years employment, guaranteed at the wages currently paid in New Zealand, on the firm's railway contracts in various parts of the colony. In addition to significantly increasing the population of the colony, Brogden's scheme served to greatly increase the interest in emigration to New Zealand, an interest ascribed "...the letters received from Messrs Brogden's emigrants, which are now scattered throughout this country month by month".
Source - The Farthest Promised Land by Rollo Arnold
                The Evening Post June 19th 1873   

Our thanks to Victor Ellen for helping to compile this list.

Copyright Denise & Peter 2001 - 2007

Reference:
Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune November 29th 1872
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