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Letters and Journals of Reverend John Morgan, Missionary at Otawhao, 1833-1865, Set of 2 volumes
 
By Morgan, John. Edited with an Introduction by Jan Pilditch
ISBN 1845300769
Paperback  780 pages
 
Published 15 July 2010
UK Price £35.00
US Price $55.00

John Morgan arrived in New Zealand in 1833 as a Missionary of the Church Missionary Society. He served in Kerikeri before assisting with the founding of nine new stations: Puriri in Thames, (1833), Mangapouri in the Waipa, (1834), Tauranga, (1835) and Kaweranga in Thames, (1837). He helped with the reformation of Rotorua station on Mokoia Island during the war and its removal to the mainland in 1839. He worked at Otawhao, in the Waikato from 1841-1864 a period which included the Waikato Wars. The CMS Missionary Journals and Letters represent some of New Zealand's earliest records of encounter and this work forms part of the Early Waikato Series, general editor Ken Arvidson. Jan Pilditch, the editor of this volume, is an Associate Professor of English and director of the Text and Translation Research Unit at the University of Waikato.

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