Title: Octavius Hadfield

Author: Barbara Macmorran

Publication details: 1969, Wellington

Digital publication kindly authorised by: G. H. Macmorran

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

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Octavius Hadfield

[extract from letter written by Octavius Hadfield]

page 148

I have been reading parts of 'History of the C.M.S. N.Z. Mission'. It has been in existence a hundred years and I have been connected with it more than sixty. ... I am amused to see how little what I did in the Waitara war matter is mentioned. Bishop Selwyn and Sir W. Martin are chiefly spoken of. The truth is it was with some difficulty that Bishop Abraham could get them to see that I had any real ground of complaint against the Government. Such is history. However, the date of my Pamphlets and letters show clearly the truth. But what does it matter? The book speaks most highly of your grandfather and asserts that he was the greatest missionary in the N.Z. Church.