Mangungu was established in 1828 as the second Wesleyan Mission station in New Zealand, the first being destroyed in 1827. The existing house was built ca 1838 for the head of the Methodist Mission in New Zealand, the Rev. Nathaniel Turner. The station is the oldest surviving structure associated with the Methodist Church in New Zealand.
On the 12 February 1840 the third and largest signing of the Treaty of Waitangi took place at the mission. The house was designed and the construction supervised by the Rev. John Hobbs who lived there with his wife Jane and family from 1845-55 when the station was closed.
For more information on Rev. John Hobbs diaries check out this link Mangungu Mission
Or visit this historic site on Motukiore Road, Horeke.
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