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A good answer is contained in the article entitled "Convicts to New Zealand" and other related short articles on the same web pages, PIONEERS IN NEW ZEALAND by A G Flude, NZ historian,

http://homepages.ihug.co,nz/~tonyf/index.html

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To have them as far away from England as possible, so it would be very difficult for convicts to return.

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