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The deaths of at least six New Zealanders in Spain went largely unnoticed at home. But some groups within New Zealand saw Spain as more than a ‘far away side issue’.

How Maori responded to the arrival of Wesleyan and Catholic missionaries in the Bay of Islands

From the mid-1830s the printed word became a new weapon in the campaign to bring Christianity to Maori.

The Catholic mission fuelled fears of French plans to annex New Zealand, but the number of French missionaries and mission stations remained heavily outnumbered by the Protestant faiths.