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Hall, Percy (Rev), 1875-1949 : Papers relating to the Cook Islands

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1844-1929

By

Hall, Percy (Rev), 1875-1949London Missionary Society; Hutchin, John Joseph Knight (Rev), 1857-1912

Reference

MS-Group-0064

Description

These papers relate to Rev Percy Hall's period as a London Missionary Society missionary in the Cook Islands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Includes an extensive collection of inward correspondence; a collection of printed material, much by the mission press in Rarotonga; samples of school work; and some early newspapers, serials, maps and photographs, covering his period in the Cook Islands.

Also includes writings in Cook Islands Maori written by students at the mission and also collected by Percy Hall and by his predecessor, John J K Hutchin. Much of this material has been transcribed by Bob O'Brien and the transcriptions are available on the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre website (http://www.nzetc.org)

Language - Cook Island Maori

Relationship complexity - A purchase from Bethune's Auction in June 1987 of Tereora School children's work illustrating legends and customs of Cook Island Maoris, gives some samples from the 1960s and 1970s. This is to be found at 88-22-42 in Drawings and Prints Section

Percy Hall, a trained teacher, was appointed headmaster of Tereora Boarding School in Rarotonga in Jul 1900. In 1905 he returned to England where he trained at the London Missionary School Hackney College in theology and was ordained in 1908. From Feb 1908 he worked in Rarotonga, being appointed to the training institution at Avarua in 1916, when he left Rarotonga for New Zealand and resigned from the London Missionary Society. In 1922, after teaching in Taihape, he taught at Marton District High School, retiring in 1940.

Quantity: 58 folder(s). 34 volume(s). 2.10 Linear Metres.

Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter

Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Three maps (See inventory for details) - To Newspaper Collection - See inventory for details - To Serials Collection - See inventory for details - To Photographic Archive - Glass negatives (Cook Island scenes).

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Partly restricted material

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58 folder(s), 34 volume(s), 2.10 Linear Metres, Personal correspondence, Sermons, Business records, Publications (Documents), Financial records, Manuscripts, Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter

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Manuscript

John Bunyan - Te tere no te tuitarere mei teianei ao ki te ao a muri atu... (London)

Date: 1892

From: Hall, Percy (Rev), 1875-1949 : Papers relating to the Cook Islands

Reference: MSX-2668

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Manuscript

David Bogue - E au akoanga no nga tumu tuatua i kitea i roto i te tuatua na te atua... ...

Date: 1857

From: Hall, Percy (Rev), 1875-1949 : Papers relating to the Cook Islands

Reference: MSX-2683

Description: Duplicated of MSX-2682. Page missing. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Manuscript

Rules of Tereora Boarding School; Admission register for Mission House School and Tereora

Date: 1898, 1893-1911

From: Hall, Percy (Rev), 1875-1949 : Papers relating to the Cook Islands

Reference: MS-Papers-4151-39

Description: Language - In English and Cook Island Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Letters to various Orematua and to Christians in the Cook Islands

Date: 1914, 1914-1918, 1915

From: Hall, Percy (Rev), 1875-1949 : Papers relating to the Cook Islands

By: Hall, Percy (Rev), 1875-1949

Reference: MS-Papers-4151-17

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 letters). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopies)

Manuscript

School diaries - Nikao 1 and 2

Date: 20 Jan 1913-28 Mar 1914, 28 Mar 1914-19 Sep 1914

From: Hall, Percy (Rev), 1875-1949 : Papers relating to the Cook Islands

Reference: MS-Papers-4151-20

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Broadsheets

Date: May 1898, 7 Oct 1899, n d

From: Hall, Percy (Rev), 1875-1949 : Papers relating to the Cook Islands

Reference: MS-Papers-4151-56

Description: Includes London Missionary Society Cook Islands Mission `Te au ture no te au orometua... ', 7 Oct 1899; London Missionary Society, Temperance pledge (4 copies); London Missionary Society,`Te akono anga...' , undated; London Missionary Society, Church membership transfer, undated; London Misionary Society,` SS John Williams. Ko te au ture no te pai', May 1898; London Missionary Society, `SS John Williams. E tuatua akakite teia ki te au patiti', May 1898 Quantity: 1 volume(s).