Mangungu Mission Station

The Wesleyans founded their second mission station in New Zealand at Mangungu in 1828. The surviving mission house, a simple wooden building that is vaguely Georgian in appearance, was built in 1838-39 after an earlier house burned down. On 12 February 1840 a crowd gathered in front of the house for the second major signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The house was removed to Onehunga in 1855, where it remained until 1972, when it was returned to its original site and restored as a significant relic of the mission period.

It occupies a glorious setting and its wharf shows how dependent earlier settlers on the Hokianga were on coastal shipping. The Wesleyan mission employed many Maori sawyers during the export of Kauri from the Hokianga.

Image Credits: David Harry Baldock Photographer,Alison and Koenraad Kuiper