Journeys To The East Cape, Thames and Waikato
In December 1833 and January 1834 he and William Yate travelled on the schooner Fortitude to the East Cape and Mahia peninsula, to return a number of slaves, taken by Ngāpuhi, most of them Ngāti Porou. Between July and November 1834 he and Alfred Nesbit Brown walked through the Thames and Waikato regions. In January 1838, he walked from East Cape to Tūranga, Poverty Bay with William Colenso, Richard Matthews and James Stack. William returned to the East Coast with Richard Taylor from March to May 1839. These journeys convinced William of the need to establish a CMS mission on the East Coast in Gisborne area. During this journey William found that Māori Christian teachers had started a school at Rangitukia and a chapel at Whakawhitirā. He chose land for a house at the Ngāti Kaipoho pā of Umukapua, near Tūranga.
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