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Mission station and village

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Mission station and village

In 1865 John Kinder photographed ‘The Revd Mr Spencer’s 1865 Mission station and native village on the Wairoa river, Tarawera lake, NZ’. Kinder was an Anglican clergyman who saw spiritual qualities in the New Zealand bush.

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Hocken Collections, University of Otago

by John Kinder

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Jock Phillips, Perceptions of the landscape – A Romantic landscape, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14392/mission-station-and-village (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.