... Great view of a unique beautiful maintained house and a vital piece of New Zealand founding history... Pompallier House is one of the few buildings in the country that can claim true historic and cultural significance... this amazing French style building is now a very interesting small museum and New Zealand’s oldest industrial building... a place where courageous French Catholic missionaries translated religious texts into reo Māori... printed and bound them into books... it must have been hard work back in the 1840´s to print 40.000 prayer books... it is still functional with very informative guides taking you through the book making process... formerly known as "the Hell hole of the Pacific" for its drunken and raucous behavior... it also has a really lovely garden and nice views on the bay... a must see... Thanks a lot Susan!(✿◠‿◠)
Ⓒ Photo: 2014 Ruth Lawton
Built in 1842, Pompallier Mission originally housed a printery. It is just one of several buildings, including a chapel and various outhouses. Situated in a beautiful waterfront setting in Russell in the Bay of Islands, an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island.
The museum is named after Jean Baptiste Pompallier, the first vicar apostolic to visit New Zealand, who founded a number of missions in the North Island.
It is part of the Kerikeri Basin historic precinct (2007) on the UNESCO Tentative List.
"Pikitia" postcards (Maori for picture, film, painting) are printed in New Zealand. They use paper stocks sourced from mills certificated with ISO 14001 in environmental management, made from wood pulp with is Elemental Chlorine Free (EFC) and printed with vegetable based inks which contain less than 1% mineral oils, and are made from renewable sources.
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Christmas
(Issued 06-11-2019)
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