Four items: 'Report of the Hawke's Bay Maori Mission', 'Report of the Rotorua and Taupo Maori Mission [...]', 'Report of the Bay of Plenty-Urewera Mission' and 'Report of the Hawke's Bay Maori Mission. For the Year Ended June 30th, 1907.'

The four items are uniform, with leaf dimensions 21.5 x 14 cm. Three bifoliums and a 16-page pamphlet, totalling 27 pp of text. All unbound, and attached to one another by string in top inner corner. Text of all four items clear and complete. A little grubby, on aged and creased paper, with wear to extremities. Small blank scrap lacking from margin of first leaf of second item. Item One: 'Report of the Hawke's Bay Maori Mission. (Supplied to the Right Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu.)' by 'Arthur F. Williams, Missionary in Charge, Te Aute, Hawke's Bay'. 4 pp. Includes sections on 'Te Haroto', 'Takapau', 'Waimarama', 'Moteo' and the 'Te Hauke Mission'. Most of the last page filled with report on the 'Spread of Tohungaism', the 'baleful influence' of which ('this manifestation of the devil's power') Williams claims to have been fighting 'Ever since 1893'. Item Two: 'Report of the Rotorua and Taupo Maori Mission For the Year ending June 30th, 1906. (Supplied to the Right Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu.)' by 'F. A. Bennett, Missionary, Rotorua'. 3 pp. Item Three: 'Report of the Bay of Plenty-Urewera Mission. (Supplied to the Right Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu.)' by 'William Goodyear, Missionary in Charge'; followed (p.3) by 'Report of the Turanga Maori District. (Supplied to the Right Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu.)' by 'Herbert W. Williams, Superintending Missionary.' 4 pp. Goodyear's report divided into accounts of 'The Tauranga-Maketu District' and the 'Opotiki, Whakatane, and Urewera'. Item Four: 'Report of the Hawke's Bay Maori Mission. For the Year Ended June 30th, 1907.' by Williams; followed (p.6) by Rotorua & Taupo Maori Mission For the Year Ended June 30th, 1907.' by Bennett; and (p.12) 'Annual Report of the Bay of Plenty Maori Mission For the Year Ended June 30th, 1907.' by Goodyear; and 'Report on the Maori Work. Waiapu, Turanga, and Wairoa. For the Year Ending June 30th, 1907.' by Williams. 16 pp. Includes sections on morals and liquor. All four items are scarce, with no copies in the British Library, on COPAC or WorldCat.