The summer of 2022-2023 was a wet one in New Zealand. There was unprecedented flooding through Auckland at the end of January, and then Cyclone Gabrielle whipped through the North Island, causing destruction and more flooding. Due to the weather, many archival collections were water damaged. But it’s not just… Read More »How to Look After Water-Damaged Archives
Papers Past has just added the Maori Anglican newspapers ‘He Kupu Whakamarama’ and ‘Te Pipiwharauroa’. These papers were edited by then Reverend Frederick Augustus Bennett between 1898 and 1913. Bennett was born at Lake Rotorua in 1871 and in 1883 was awarded a scholarship to St Stephen’s Native Boys School… Read More »He Kupu Whakamarama and Te Pipiwharauroa at Papers Past
Was Bishop George Augustus Selwyn ever the bishop of Sydney? It is a well-known fact that Bishop George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand initially declined the Bishopric of Lichfield, England, but it is little known that he had previously declined appointment as Metropolitan of the Australian Church. The… Read More »Selwyn as Bishop of Sydney
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
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
This year (2015) marks the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed over 200,000 people and the only time in human history nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. Subsequently, on the 15th of August, Japan announced its surrender to the allied forces, and on the… Read More »70th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Springbok Tour Cross In 2010 we wrote about the Springbok Tour cross; a simple wooden cross carried by St John’s College students during the 1981 Springbok Tour protests that was rediscovered here at the College amongst some discarded timber. Students from the College traveled from Auckland to the test match… Read More »1981 Springbok Tour Cross on display at Te Papa
Remembering Neale Fitzgerald Eager of St John’s College Born: 6th November 1887. Died: 1920 in Suez, Egypt. Died of exposure, aged 32. Buried: Unknown. Originally, very little was known about Neale (spelt ‘Neil’ on the memorial in the college chapel) Fitzgerald Eager, even being noted as ‘missing’ by the St.… Read More »Remembering the ANZACs from St John’s College: Neale Fitzgerald Eager
Remembering Paul Graham Clark of St John’s College Born: 9th February 1897 in Leicester, England. Died: 26th August 1918 in Bapaume, France. Killed in action, aged 21. Buried: Archiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas-de-Calais, France. Paul Graham Clark was an Auckland University College studying medicine who was also enrolled at St… Read More »Remembering the ANZACs from St John’s College: Paul Graham Clark
Remembering James Dalton Dinneen of St John’s College Born: 16th July 1883 in Cambridge, Waikato. Died: 1st October 1916. Died of wounds, aged 32. Buried: Heilly Station, Mericourt-l’Abbe, Somme. James Dalton Dinneen was enrolled as a student at St. John’s College between 1902 and 1904 and gained a B.A. at… Read More »Remembering the ANZACs from St John’s College: James Dalton Dinneen
