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Story: Ngā tamariki

Mission school, Taupiri, 1859

  • Engraving of photograph, 1865

  • Photograph, 1859

Pupils assemble outside their mission school at Taupiri, in the Waikato, in 1859. The school was opened in 1843 under Anglican missionary Benjamin Ashwell.

Photograph reference: PA1-0-207-06

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Rawinia Higgins me Paul Meredith, Ngā tamariki – European influence on Māori childhoods, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/30549/mission-school-taupiri-1859 (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Rawinia Higgins me Paul Meredith, published 3 May 2011.