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Kōrero: Perceptions of the landscape

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

Permission of the Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hakena, University of Otago, must be obtained before any re-use of this image. Further information may be obtained from the Library through its website.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

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

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.