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By the early 1830s humanitarians were encouraging the British government to take a more active role in New Zealand affairs.

Samuel Marsden was a key figure in the establishment of the first Christian mission in New Zealand.

Thomas Kendall established the first mission school, but he was later suspended after admitting an adulterous affair with a Maori woman.

Henry Williams, who had been ordained a priest in 1822 'for the cure of souls in his majesty's foreign possessions', inherited a mission beset by problems.

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.

Portrait of Octavius Hadfield, circa 1890s.

Photograph of missionary Thomas Samuel Grace, 1865.

Octavius Hadfield, member of the Church Missionary Society, was, in 1838, the first priest to be ordained in New Zealand. He became Bishop of Wellington in 1870