The Mangungu Memorial

In front of the Mangungu Mission house is this tall stone and concrete memorial which gives thanks to missionaries of the Hokianga who were there between 1827 and 1893. 

One side of it has a plaque which includes:

John Hobbs, James Stack, William White, John Whiteley, James Wallis, William Woon, Nathaniel Turner, James Buller, John Bumby, Charles Creed, Samuel Ironside, John Warren, Gideon Smales, George Stannard, Henry Lawry, William Kirk, William Gittos (who went onto the Kaipara region), William Rowse, Thomas Hammond, Thomas Joughlin, Benjamin Rothwell. I'm assuming most or all of them had wives and families so I will include them in the missionary list too.

And 2 other sides are the same words as above and below in te reo (Maori language) and the 4th side of the memorial has a plaque which says: To the glory of God. This monument was erected to commemorate the establishment at Hokianga in October 1827 of the Wesleyan Methodist Mission in New Zealand by the Reverends John Hobbs and James Stack after it's interruption at Whangaroa (another story in itself) in January 1827 by Hongi Hika's war, and the work of extension by their faithful successors. Also the sympathetic protection extended to the mission by Eruera Patuone and his brother Tamati Waka Nene chiefs of the Ngapuhi tribe.

The memorial is set about halfway down the driveway and looks out onto the Hokianga river - how could you not want to live here?

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