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I have made repeated inquiries about the final destination 

 of the original missionary plant. The first press is hopelessly 

 lost. One early Columbian press answering to the descrip- 

 tion was ultimately sold to a foundry in Auckland and melted 

 down ; another was shipped to an x\ustralian port, and thence 

 to the Pacific coast of North America — either of these may or 

 may not have been the historic press on which the first Maori 

 New Testament was printed, a relic which would have been 

 highly valued in years to come. I know of yet another old 

 press, which once belonged to the Church Mission, but as it 

 iDears date 1841 it is certainly not the first. The large font of 

 small pica, or the bulk of it, after passing through several 

 hands, found its way to Palmerston North, and was used for 

 some years by Mr. Alexander McMinn in printing the Mana- 

 tvatu Standard. 



