Loose prints relating to the Presbyterian mission in the Whakatane District

Loose prints from album and album pages at PA1-o-1818, PAColl-9928-25 and PAColl-9928-26, chiefly images relating to the Presbyterian mission in the Whakatane District, taken circa 1919 to circa 1920s by unidentified photographers. Also four postcards taken in Rotorua district circa 1920s including Whakarewarewa village. Also two school group portraits taken 1950 and circa 1950 of Maori school girls, possibly from Turakina Maori Girls' College.

The images show, chiefly unidentified, Maori children and adults, also people working for, or visiting, the mission. Pictures include:

- groups of Maori school children, some outside school buildings, some with teachers. A P Godber photographed one of these groups at Te Whaiti school.

- Rev John George Laughton wearing Maori shoulder cape.

- group outside the manse, Maungapohatu.

- portrait of young Maori girls Merihi Tamahou and Rawhina Ripaki, taken January 1920.

Relationship complexity - Some of these images, and information regarding them, may be found in an article published in Te Ao Hou, Number 73, July 1973, pages 27 to 34, titled 'Memories of Waiohau' by E E Little. A copy is filed in the Binney backfile in Photographic Archive.

Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).