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The Wesleyan mission, whose members are all 

 ordained clergymen, consists of the following sta- 

 tions : 



Wesleyan Missionary Stations. 



This mission likewise employs a printer at the 

 Mangungo press, Hokianga. 



The Roman Catholic mission consists of a bishop 

 and ten priests, one of whom is generally stationed 

 at Wangaroa, one at Hokianga, one at the Bay of 

 Islands, one at Tauranga, and one in the Southern 

 Islands. In accordance, however, with the spirit of 

 the Roman Catholic missionary system, they are 

 generally without fixed places of abode; and the 

 bishop, whose diocese extends over several archi- 

 pelagos in the great ocean, is continually travelling 

 from place to place, accompanied by priests. 



There are, consequently, at the present moment 

 forty-four missionaries employed in New Zealand ; 

 which, taking the population at 114,890 souls, 

 gives one missionary for little more than 2500 

 natives. Their duties, however, are by no means 

 equally distributed, as the places most remote from 



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