PREFACE. 
The following pages describe so fully the plans 
and operations of the Church Missionary Society, 
in reference to the Mission established in New 
Zealand, that it would be superfluous to add any 
thing upon that subject : — yet it may be proper 
to state, that, as the blessing of God appears 
thus far so signally to have rested upon the 
labours of his servants in tliat important Mission, 
the Committee have greatly augmented the num- 
ber of both Missionaries and Catechists in that 
region ; whom they would earnestly commend to 
the prayers of every friend of this holy cause, 
that the Great Head of the Church may be pleased 
to continue and to enlarge his mercy, both to- 
wards them, and towards the objects of their 
Christian zeal. 
The information furnished in this volume, it 
is further to be stated, is the result of personal 
observations by the Rev. W. Yate, during his 
