Reports of Native Church Board Meetings In New Zealand, during the 1860s, Māori were conflicted between their faith in Christianity and their adherence to the Anglican Church, which many of them viewed as working on behalf of the Crown. The New Zealand Wars resulted in many Māori losing confidence in… Read More »Ngā Korero a te Hui o te Hahi Māori o ngā Takiwa – Reports of Native Church Board Meetings
In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Rev. Samuel Leigh’s visit to New Zealand the John Kinder Theological Library displayed a selection of some of the oldest and most significant historical items held in our collection of Methodist archives. The exhibition ended Friday 31st of May 2019. John Hobbs… Read More »The Journals of John Hobbs, 1823-1856
Handwritten pages in te reo Māori These two small pages, handwritten in Te Reo Māori, are part of the Trinity Methodist Theological College Library archive collection held here at the John Kinder Theological Library. These records include an eclectic assortment of items relating to early Methodism in New Zealand and… Read More »Handwritten pages in te reo Māori – Te Reo Māori and Methodist Miscellanea
This photograph shows Solomon Island students playing a game of football during the Ascension Day celebrations at St. Barnabas’ College, Norfolk Island. This photograph is from the Palmer Family photograph collection which was donated to the library by John Palmer’s great-great granddaughter, Heather Beehre. John Palmer worked for the Melanesian Mission from… Read More »Ascension Day Football Match at St. Barnabas’ College, Norfolk Island
St John’s Theological College was closed for the War With the outbreak of World War One in 1914, the student population at St John’s College steadily declined with students leaving overseas to serve in the war. From this College photograph from 1915; Walter Averill, Charles Smith, Harry Reynolds and Arthur… Read More »Remembering the ANZACs: Closure of the College
John Baskett and the Vinegar Bible was a ‘basketful of errors’ The history of the printed Bible has been marked by many misprints. Poor printers have been fined, struck down by charges of heresy, and even doomed to a life of destitution in a debtor’s prison. One such printer came… Read More »“Basketful of Errors” : John Baskett and the Vinegar Bible
The Reformation and the Printing Press The Reformation and the Printing Press go hand-in-hand. The spread of the Reformation was in part facilitated by the recent invention of the printing press, which led to a growing volume of printed materials and increased the availability of the written word. “[W]e haue… Read More »Martin Luther in Print: The Reformation and the Printing Press
A brief history of Sir Kingi Ihaka and the Auckland Anglican Māori Club On Sunday 8th October 2017, the Auckland Anglican Māori Club celebrated its 50th anniversary at The Church of the Holy Sepulchre with a Thanksgiving Service. Sir Kingi Matutaera Ihaka dedicated himself to all aspects of Māoritanga and… Read More »Sir Kingi Matutaera Ihaka and the Auckland Anglican Māori Club
St John’s Collegiate School art lessons taught by Wilhelm Dittmer While working on a research request we came across this advertisement for drawing, painting, and sketching lessons at St John’s College to be taught by Wilhelm Dittmer. This piece of ephemera is held in our ‘St John’s School and King’s… Read More »“Entirely from Nature”: Art Lessons at St John’s Collegiate School
Honey bees are our friends, and William Cotton knew it. Much of the human food supply relies on honey bee pollinating services. Aotearoa/New Zealand has 28 native bee species, but none of these have the crop pollinating abilities of honey bees, so essential to our present diet. Records show… Read More »William Cotton, the Bee Master of St John’s College
