The first book printed in New Zealand was a translation into Maori of the Epistles to the Ephesians and to the Philippians. The Church Missionary press was landed at the society’s station at Paihia, Bay of Islands, on December 30, 1834, and early in 1835 William Colenso finished printing this six-teen-page ‘puka-puka,” the first instalment of the complete 1837 Maori New Testament. The first book printed in English in New Zealand was a temperance pamphlet. That was in 1836, .when drunkenness at Kororareka was a cause of such grave anxiety to the respectable white residents that they formed a society to combat it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1939, Page 8
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