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Salvation Army Māori mission, 1930s

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Salvation Army Māori mission, 1930s

Robert Prowse (standing at left) headed the Salvation Army's Māori mission on the East Coast from 1934 until his death in 1967. Here he takes a Sunday School class in the porch of the meeting house at Tokata, near Te Araroa.

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Hirini Kaa, Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations – Salvation Army, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30652/salvation-army-maori-mission-1930s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Hirini Kaa, published 7 April 2011, updated 1 March 2017.