Somes Prisoners

APPENDIX  

Table 1

Annual average Overseas Emigration from Germany, per 1,000 of population.

(Using 1914 Boundaries)

• 1871-80  1.5 people                    

• 1881-90  2.9 people                              

• 1891-00  1.0 person

• 1901-10  0.5 person                    

• (1913)     0.4 person                              

• 1921-30  1.0 person

Source: Dudley Baines Emigration from Europe 1815-1930 (Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1991): 10

Emigration Returns for the ports of Hamburg and Bremen

• 1872                        292,406

• 1873                        270,516

• 1874                        73,798 (Including at least 56,137 to the United States, and 1,750 to Australia)

Source: AJHR, 1875, D-2: 89-90

Table 2

German Population throughout New Zealand  

Note: The 1926 Census did not ask for the country of origin.

Source: Census of New Zealand 1871-1921, population by birthplace. The 1867 figures appear on Table 11 of the 1871 Census.

Table 3

German Population of the Manawatu-Rangitikei  

Note: The 1926 Census did not ask for the country of origin.

Sources: Census of New Zealand for above years, population by birthplace and county or borough of residence, with the exception of the 1874 Census which used electoral boundaries.

Table 4

Total Numbers of ‘Russians’ in New Zealand for the Census years 1906-1921  

Sources: Census of New Zealand, for the above years, population by birthplace

Table 5

Men from the Manawatu-Rangitikei District interned on Somes Island in late 1917.

1.                 Wilhelm Appelt, 37, labourer of Palmerston North, in N.Z. 3 years

2.                 Paul Arnold, 30, labourer of Taihape, in N.Z. 3 years

3.                 Adolf Max A. Bornhold, 54, watchmaker-jeweller of Mangaweka, in N.Z. 18 years.

4.                 Michael Eder, 27, labourer of Foxton,  in N.Z. 3 years

5.                 Otto Eder, 29, labourer of Foxton, in N.Z. 2 years (sic)

6.                 Hugo Kosel, 29, wood-sawyer of Taihape, in N.Z. 2 years

7.                 Theodor Meissner, 23, engineer of Utiku, in N.Z. 4 years

8.                 Henry Petersen, 38, labourer of  Palmerston North, in N.Z. 15 years

9.                 Ewald Schader, 36, a labourer of Palmerston North, in N.Z. 3 years

10.                 Fredrich Wagner, 38, a labourer of Palmerston North, in N.Z. 3 years

Note: Of these men, all of whom were German, Max Bornhold was the only one listed as either married or naturalised. Bornhold and Meissener were the only ones listed as being released in December 1919, thus probably all the others were  repatriated to Germany on the Willochra.

Source: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, Register of Aliens, 1917

Table 6

Total numbers of Germans, Austria-Hungarians (including Bohemians and Dalmatians) living in the Manawatu-Rangitikei district in October 1916.

(All Ages)

Note: The figures in brackets indicate the percentage of the total population in each category that lived in the Manawatu-Rangitikei, that is, 9% of all Germans/Prussians in New Zealand, lived in this district.

Source: Census of New Zealand, 1916, ‘Birthplaces’ 21-2, 27-8, 39-40, 45-6

Table 7

Numbers of Germans, Austria-Hungarians, Bohemians and Dalmatians including the numbers who claimed British nationality (‘BN’) from the Manawatu- Rangitikei district, who registered on the Alien Register in late November 1917.

(People aged 15 and over)

Note: Marton includes 1 ‘German’ born USA;  Kairanga includes 3 ‘Germans’ born in USA.

Source: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, Register of Aliens, 1917

© Val Burr, 2003