Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
James West Stack - Notes and extracts
Primary Maker
Date
1843-1878
Physical Description
Level of Current Record
Single Item
Public Access Text
Johannes C. Andersen has inscribed the following comment:
"Copy of MS note by James W. Stack left with other papers, pictures etc given to the Turnbull Library by Stack's people in England after his death".
Subject Notes
Stack, James West, 1835-1919 (Missionary, clergyman, writer, interpreter). Born 27 March 1835 in a tent in a Maori pa at Puriri in the Thames district, New Zealand, was the oldest of seven children of the missionary James Stack and his wife, Mary West. He arrived in Christchurch on 16 August 1859, was ordained deacon in 1860 and became a priest in 1862. Stack believed that the bitter sense of betrayal over the loss of land had 'blighted all our work'. He wanted the government to prevent the leasing of Maori land on disadvantageous terms, and to encourage Maori landholding to develop along European economic and social lines. He considered the reserves were 'ridiculously small', showed impatience at the government's slowness in settling claims and was aware of extreme poverty among the South Island Maori, who were feeling the full weight of European settlement by the 1870s. He tried to influence the government to act for those suffering hardship.
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07 Jul 2023
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