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Job opportunities for Irish-born New Zealanders were limited as a result of anti-Irish bias. [citation needed] In the 1930s 40% of the New Zealand Police Force were of Irish ancestry. [citation needed] One of the main reasons the Irish immigrated to New Zealand was because of the Great Famine and fear of yet another famine. [citation needed]
The first major contact between both nations was during first wave of Irish immigration to New Zealand. Because the Irish were considered to be "British", it is unknown who the first Irish were to reach New Zealand, however, the first Irish migrants to reach New Zealand would have occurred around 1840 when the New Zealand Company first began ...
New Zealand portal; Ireland portal; Irish-New Zealanders includes New Zealand people of Irish birth or ancestry. (In accordance with Wikipedia:Categories, the applicability of the category should be based on a consensus that the connection to Ireland is important enough to include in the article text before this category can properly be considered.)
New Zealanders of European descent are mostly of British and Irish ancestry, with significantly smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as Germans, Poles, [a] French, Dutch, Croats and other South Slavs, Greeks, [2] and Scandinavians. [3]
Most European New Zealanders have British and/or Irish ancestry, with smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as Germans, Poles (historically noted as "Germans" due to Partitions of Poland), French, Dutch, Scandinavian and South Slavs. [42]
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Due to New Zealand's geographic isolation, several centuries passed before the next phase of settlement, that of Europeans. Only then did the original inhabitants need to distinguish themselves from the new arrivals, using the adjective "māori" which means "ordinary" or "indigenous" which later became a noun although the term New Zealand native was common until about 1890.
Commonwealth and Irish women who were married to New Zealand citizens were eligible to acquire citizenship by registration with no further requirements. [55] Foreign wives and minor children of male New Zealand citizens were allowed to register as citizens [48] at the discretion of the Minister of Internal Affairs. [56]