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:''This article is about the Mission in the North Island, New Zealand. For the town in the South Island, see Waimate.'' The Waimate Mission established one of the earliest European settlements in New Zealand, at Waimate North in the Bay of Islands. The members of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) appointed to establish the Waimate Mission were the Rev. William Yate and the lay members of the CMS, Messrs. Richard Davis, George Clarke and James Hamlin. ==The establishment of the Waimate Mission== At the instigation of Samuel Marsden, a model farming village for the Māori was constructed at Te Waimate by the Church Missionary Society (CMS). Land was bought from the Ngāpuhi tribe following the Girls' War of 1830. In 1831, Richard Davis, a farmer and lay member of the Church Missionary Society, established a farm at the Waimate Mission. The first marriage of two Europeans in New Zealand was conducted on 11 October 1831 at the St John the Baptist church, between William Gilbert Puckey (26), son of a Missionary carpenter, William Puckey, and Matilda Elizabeth Davis (17), second daughter of Richard Davis.〔 The existing Church of St John the Baptist was built in 1871. In 1835 William Williams, Jane and their family move to Waimate, where Williams continued his work on the translation of the Bible into Māori.〔 The boarding school for the sons of the CMS missionaries was also transferred from Paihia to the Waimate Mission. Richard Taylor succeeded William Williams as principal of the Waimate Boys’ School in September 1839. On 23 & 24 December 1835 Charles Darwin visited when the ''Beagle'' spent 10 days in the Bay of Islands.〔Charles Darwin, ''Journal of a Voyage Round the World'', 1831–36〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Te Waimate mission」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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