Photograph album pages of images relating to the Presbyterian mission in the Whakatane district

Unbound pages from two photograph albums, with images relating to the Presbyterian mission in the Whakatane District, taken circa 1920s by unidentified photographers.

The images show a wide variety of identified scenes, groups, buildings and events including:

- opening day of the school at Matahi.

- rallys of Maori mission workers in 1921, 1923, 1924.

- local Maori people.

- mission hospital at Nuhaka.

- portrait of Rua Kenana and Rev John George Laughton.

- mission house at Matahi.

Accompanying information - Five photocopied pages, provided by Binney, with the note "From Rev Fletcher's collection. Now at Whakatane Museum (1986) (Duplicated in Fowler) "

Relationship complexity - Some images duplicated at PAColl-9928-27. An album with the same images, from the collection of Rev Henry James Fletcher, is held at the Whakatane Museum. Some of the images from this collection, and information regarding them, may be found in an article 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 the Photographic Archive.

Arrangement: Ordered according to the numbers written on the back of the pages.

Quantity: 59 album(s) Album(s).