Te Waimate Mission
The Te Waimate Mission was one of the first European settlements in New Zealand . It is located in Waimate North in the Far North District in the Bay of Islands .
At the suggestion of Samuel Marsden , the British Church Missionary Society built a model village for the Māori . The land for this was acquired by Iwi Ngāpuhi after the Girls War in 1830 .
The village consisted of three wooden houses for the families of the missionaries, accommodations for the Māori, a flour mill, a joinery, brickworks, blacksmiths, school and a church. Marsden hoped to Europeanize in the Māori station, at the same time the mission should make a profit. They wanted to produce goods for sale on European ships and sell European goods to the Māori. The Stone Store in Kerikeri was to serve as a trading center.
The idea of re-educating Māori under controlled conditions in the sense of European culture, whereby the students should also generate the means with their labor, only attracted a few Māori. Therefore, the activities of the mission station were gradually reduced.
On February 10, 1840, it regained historical importance when the second round of the signing of the Waitangi Treaty took place here.
Some of the buildings were used by Bishop George Augustus Selwyn as St John's Anglican theological college from 1842 to 1844 , but moved to Auckland in 1844 . The mission was used as a base by British soldiers during the Flagstaff War of 1845. Some of the victims of the Battle of Ohaeawai are buried here. Attempts to revive the mission after the war failed. Therefore the buildings were sold.
The only remaining building is George Clarke's home at the time, the Mission House . It was registered as a Category 1 Monument by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust on July 23, 1983 under registration number 3 and is operated by them as a museum.
Another house of the mission station was moved and is now part of the Butler Point Whaling Museum .
Individual evidence
- ^ Te Waimate Mission House. Historic Place Category 1. In: New Zealand Heritage List / Rārangi Kōrero . Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga , June 23, 1983, accessed September 25, 2019 .
Coordinates: 35 ° 18 ′ 59.7 ″ S , 173 ° 52 ′ 34.8 ″ E