MEMORIES OF A MISSION HOUSE
HOSE who like to hear stories of the old days should be interested in the series of talks from 2YA which began last week. The setting for the talks is the mission house, "The Elms," at Tauranga, which was first built for the Rev. Archdeacon Brown, who went there as a missionary in 1838. The house was occupied in 1847, and still holds the treasures brought out from England and collected in the early days of New Zealand. But it holds a good deal else as well. Every piece of furniture has its historic associations. Round this table sat the soldiers who fought at Gate Pah. This eardrop was presented by a grateful Maori woman. That piano was brought out from England and carted here and there by bullock waggon. This bed and chest were made from a great cedar tree in the early days of the mission. The stories woven round the house and furniture have been culled by H. Bradney Williams from Miss Alice Maxwell, niece of Archdeacon Brown, and are the basis of the talks which 2YA is broadcasting on Wednesday mornings at 11.0,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 175, 30 October 1942, Page 9
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192MEMORIES OF A MISSION HOUSE New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 175, 30 October 1942, Page 9
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