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Duncan Home, Tahoraiti, Dannevirke

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Richard Marsh: I'll go back till I was round about ten. Matthew Cowley came here to live. He brought a little boy. I do believe he adopted a little boy that was brought from up Nuhaka way somewhere. Tony was his name. The first thing he told Tony was, don't you mix with that man he was bad company. That was me, but anyway. That was one of my first introductions with Matthew Cowley.

Front Matter

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Maromaku Chapel

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Les Going: The Church in the Valley here goes back to 1910 when my grandfather moved into the valley. His life in the church began way back in 1890 and he lived in a different area at the time, but when he moved here then he began the Church in this area.

Whangarei Stake Center

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Monsey Anaru: We have a saying in New Zealand among the Maori people, which goes something like this: Kia poto tonu te okou to paipa kie maha nai waha. Translated: we're happy to see you, extremely happy. Especially when you're handed some candy and things like that. Literally, that means: have a short stalk on your pipe to retain the warmth closer to your mouth. So, I hope that I'm not going to speak for too long. I have all my notes with me. The first meeting place in Whangarei was a street by the central Baptist Church there where …

Awarua Chapel

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

(Who?): Brothers and sisters and friends, I acknowledge our Heavenly Father for the blessings that bring you people here to Awarua. Now, I have just arrived back from Wellington and I heard that this Hawaiian group was coming from Hawaii.

Mphs New Zealand Trip: Daily Diary, April 16-28, 2002

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Tuesday, 16 April

We left Honolulu at 12:30 a.m., 5 long hours after leaving Laie. At some point the 6 ½-hour flight to Nadi we crossed the International Dateline and lost a day, arriving at Nadi at 5:30 a.m. on April 16th.

Takapuwahia Marae, Porirua

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Taku Parai: Well, we've come to the part of the program where I guess a lot of questions and answers are going to be shared between us all, but I think we should start of on the right note, and that is that we'll have an opening song, which we'll ask Aunty Cissy to conduct. And we'll ask Hrother Pierce to give the opening invocation to this part of the program.

Mormonism And The Maori: A Look At Beginnings

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a sustained mission to the New Zealand Maori beginning in the 1880s. Within a few short years thousands had been baptized. By the turn of the century, the church counted nearly a tenth of the total Maori population as members, with a significantly higher percentage in certain pas (settlements) along the east coast of the North Island from the southern Wairarapa to Poverty Bay and beyond.1 The reason Mormonism was so well accepted among a significant minority of Maori in the final decades of the nineteenth century and why it continues …

Papakura Marae. Auckland

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Brian Joyce: There's a picture up on the wall of a world renowned lady for her skills in making korowai in particular. And her name was Dame Rangimarie Hetet. And so we built that center to commemorate her and we did that while she was alive. And when we opened the building we invited her to the opening and she opened it and she was 100 years old then.

Beisinger Hall, Church College Of New Zealand, Temple View

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Bill Heperi: We're going to have two presentations this evening, it's all about Church history, it's about a lot of the missionaries that came to New Zealand, way back in the early 1900s, Sister Rangi Parker will be our presenter and after half an hour of that we'll follow through with a recess for a moment, and then we'll have John Aspinall, he'll present to you rather interesting pictures of the labor missionary days when they constructed this whole campus, temple, the college, visitor center, and surrounding faculty homes. So without further ado I'm going to ask Sister Rangi Parker …

Andrew Jenson In New Zealand 1895-1896

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Andrew Jenson was Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for many years. He was born in 1850 in Damgren, Denmark. The family joined the Church in 1854 and emigrated to Utah in 1866, settling in Pleasant Grove. After a mission back to Denmark Andrew become interested in publishing material about the history of the Church. In 1888 he traveled throughout the Eastern U.S. collecting material on Church history.

Judea Marae, Tauranga

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

A. Watene: They belong to the Church for two generations before I was born. My mother was a Morrison Meha from Gisborne. Actually she was a Salvation Army person before she met my father, and it wasn't long after she met him that she joined the Church. My mother was a very spiritual woman, and her name was Ani Morete.

Full Issue

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

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