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A press in the Pompallier Mission
A press in the Pompallier Mission

...that the Pompallier Mission is New Zealand's oldest industrial building and printed some of the earliest texts in Māori?

...that after HMNZS Canterbury was decommissioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy, the frigate was sold to a trust for a symbolic NZ$1 and then scuttled in the Bay of Islands by a former crewmember?