Presbyterian Church - Missions

Date: 1840 - 1844

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/9/9-Acc.37938

Description: Includes reference giving coloured symbols identifying Church Missionary Society, Wesleyan Missionary Society, Roman Catholic Mission, Presbyterian Missions and North German Missionary Society stations. Also station outposts and religious frontier posts for Church Missionary Society, Wesleyan Missionary Society and Roman Catholic. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream card. Scale indeterminable. 106.5 x 71 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1918, ca 1965]

By: Henry, Annie, 1879-1971

Reference: MS-Papers-2128

Description: Comprises photograph of the first house Sister Annie lived in at Ruatahuna (ca 1918) with related letter and four newspaper obituaries published at the time of her death (1971). Source of title - Supplied title Sister Annie was ordained as a Presbyterian deaconess in 1916. In 1917 she was sent to Ruatahuna to open a mission where she worked with Rev J G Laughton and Dr W F Godfrey. Until her retirement in 1947, she combined the roles of doctor, dentist, teacher, nurse and preacher in her ministry at Ruatahuna. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph; printed matter (photocopies)

Date: 1827 - 1844

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/9/4-Acc.37933

Description: Identifies mission stations by colour for Church Missionary Society; Wesleyan Missionary Society; Roman Catholic Missions; Presbyterian and North German Society. Shows aproximate areas of influence for CMS, Wesleyan and Roman Catholic. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream linen. Scale indeterminable. 88 x 68 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1920-1935

From: Gibb, James (Rev), 1857-1935 : Further papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6737-2

Description: Identified persons entered under Name. Also includes copy of letter from rev Hector Maclean, St Andrew's Manse, Dunedin (1926); letter from [?] J or T Campbell on the SS `Karmala' describing visit to mission station at Canton; letter from James W Shannon, the Manse, Marere, Hawke's Bay; letter from [?] R E [?] Boyce or Boyd. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1935

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-038903-G

Description: The Presbyterian mission printing press "Te Waka Karaitiana Press" at Taupo. An issue of their magazine "Te Waka Karaitiana" is standing on the press, with a bundle of completed issues. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1935. An original print of this image is in Godber Album Vol 100, p 7 (PA1-o-194) For another view of the printing press see 1/4-038911. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1874, 1878

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0129

Description: The journal describes two voyages through the Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Groups in the mission ship `John Williams'. The first voyage was from 26 May to 2 Aug 1874, and the second, 11 May to 21 Jul 1878. Much of the content is on mission matters, with occasional reference to matters of more general interest. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Ng, James (Dr), 1936-

Reference: PAColl-5135

Description: Many photographs include the Presbyterian missionaries Alexander Don and George Hunter McNeur Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-019139 to 019159 and 1/2-019162 to 019172. Quantity: 32 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand

Reference: MapColl-832eke/1947/Acc.1771

Description: Map of North Island showing [Presbyterian] Maori Mission stations. They are marked as situated at Otaki, Whanganui, New Plymouth, Turakina, Marton, Napier, Wairoa, Whakaki, Nuhaka, Gisborne, Taumarunui, Auckland, Wellington, Paihia, Tauranga. There is a large cluster (18) in the Opotiki - Waikaremoana - Taupo - Te Teko district. Glued on to the bottom left hand corner of the map is a list of the Mission Staff based in each area eg Taumarunui, Rev. Homi Potatau; Takaanu, Sister Edith. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, card backed, coloured frame, not to scale, 48.5 x 43 cm.

Date: n d

By: Comrie, William James (Very Rev), 1860-1945

Reference: MS-0601

Description: Minister and Moderator of the Presbyterian Church; church historian Quantity: 1 volume(s) (87 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (23 cm; stiff black wraps) Finding Aids: Indexed.

Date: 1881-1927

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1554

Description: Includes selections from New Hebrides missionary correspondence, general letters 1880-1929, Livingstonia Committee correspondence 1901-1934, private letters of Dr Laws 1875-1883, Women's Foreign Mission Committee correspondence 1876-1930, records of the Women's Missionary College, Edinburgh 1891-1900, 1923-1931 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Physical Description: Positive microfilm Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1935

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-038911-G

Description: Side view of the Presbyterian mission printing press "Te Waka Karaitiana Press" at Taupo. There is a bundle of completed issues on a ledge. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1935. For another image of the printing press see 1/4-038903. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1918,1923

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11115-176

Description: Contains a letter from Sister Jessie Grieve to Mrs Hunter, 1923, a letter from Alex Doull to Miss Johnston, 1918 and accompanying note from Miss Johnston's daughter, and an undated newsclipping about the experience of missionaries in the Urewera Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1955-1959]

From: St John's Church (Willis Street, Wellington) : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-8068-04

Description: Circular letters, newsletters, some correspondence etc. Includes resignation of M A Seath from position of Fields Secretary, thank you notes and cards from family of late Mr T Thomson, from Amy Furlong and Don Wilson, Mrs Annie Thomson and Gavin Wilson and family. Identified correspondents entered in the Name field. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1934-1942

From: Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand : Records of the Wellington and Wairarapa Presbyteries

Reference: 88-017-34/6/3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1944-1959

From: St John's Church (Willis Street, Wellington) : Records

Reference: MSX-6925

Description: Three notebooks relating to finance and collection of the Kelburn Branch of the Presbyterian Women's Mission Union Quantity: 1 volume(s) (3 pieces).

Date: [1947-1976]

From: St John's Church (Willis Street, Wellington) : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-8068-01

Description: Background material on the mission's focus; photocopies of papers relating to mission celebrations, mission letters (1947-1959), and two letters (correspondents entered in the Name field) and three thank you cards from Stan and John Lowe, the family of the late Mrs Anne Fraser Stewart and Mrs Hugh McDougall and Allan, Edna and family for sympathy letters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs relating to missionary activities.

Date: 1936-1941

From: St John's Church (Willis Street, Wellington) : Records

Reference: MSX-6924

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1935

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1496-1/4-G

Description: Photograph of a page from "Te Waka Karaitiana : te mangai o te Hahi Perepitiriana", Pukapuka II, Nama 2, Hanuere 1935, showing the mast-head with an illustration of a waka on the sea with hills around, set inside the carved borders of a meeting house. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1935. An original print of this image is in Godber Album Vol 100, p 7 (PA1-o-194) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches