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1 Sir Kenneth Grubb, A Layman Looks At The Church, London, 1964, p.39.
2 Keith Cole, Sincerity My Guide: A Biography of the Right Reverend P.W. Stephenson (1888-1962), Melbourne, 1970, p.89.
3 Nehemiah 1:3.
4 Nehemiah 8:3-5.
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7 H.F. Ault, The Nelson Narrative: The Story of the Church of England in the Diocese of Nelson, New Zealand 1858 to
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1 Sadlier, Letter to The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 4 November 1919, Letterbook 1266,
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http://www.spck.org.uk/about-spck/index/
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3 William Hart, ‘A Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Lord Bishop of New Zealand’, 17 October 1841,
http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/selwyn/consecration1841.html
4 W.P. Morrell, The Anglican Church in New Zealand: A History, Dunedin, 1973, p.62.
5 Sadlier, Letter to The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 4 November 1919, Letterbook 1266,
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11 Shirley Tunnicliff (ed.), The Selected Letters of Mary Hobhouse, Wellington, 1992, p. 110.
12 Allan, p.168.
13 Ault, pp.26,28.
14 Walter Hobhouse, Sermons and Addresses by Edmund Hobhouse, D.D, First Bishop of Nelson, N.Z, with a
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15 Ault, pp.27-28.
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16 T.P. Clarke, Bishop Hobhouse. MA Thesis, Victoria University, Wellington, 1977, pp.23,93.
17 Hobhouse, p.25.
18 Clarke, p.106.
19 Ault, pp.27,33.
20 Clarke, p.98.
21 Tunnicliff, The Selected Letters of Mary Hobhouse, p.105.
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25 Clarke, p.37; Ault, p.47.

26 Bishop’s address to synod, 1935, Year book and summary of proceedings of the synods of the Diocese of Nelson
1932-1935, Anglican Centre Archives, Nelson, pp.17-45.
27 Ault, p.203.
28 Clarke, pp.66, 106.
29 Ault, p.34.
30 Ibid., p.208.
31 Ibid., pp.39,49.
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32 Ibid., p.44.
33 Shirley Tunnicliff, ‘The Episcopate of Edmund Hobhouse, First Bishop of Nelson’, Anglican Historical Society
Bulletin, No. 13, April 1999, p.6; ‘Police Court’, The Colonist, 15 May 1863, p.2; Ault, p.42.
34 Tunnicliff, The Selected Letters of Mary Hobhouse, p.105; ‘Monthly Summary of Events’,
The Nelson Examiner, 19 June 1866, p.5.
35 Ault, p.46.
36 Ibid., p.197.
37 Ibid., p.47.
38 Ibid., p.195.
39 Ibid., pp.44-46.
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40 Allan Davidson and Peter Lineham, Transplanted Christianity, 2nd edn, Palmerston North, 1989, p.109.
41 Ault, pp.325-27.
42 Ibid., p.46.
43 Ibid., pp.328,343.
44 Ibid., p.64.
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45 Ibid., pp.65-66.
46 Ibid., pp.67-68.
47 ‘Obituary’, Church Recorder for the Diocese of Nelson, No. 11, 1895, pp. 93-96.
48 Ault, p.72.
49 Ibid., p.89.
50 Keith Sinclair, A History of New Zealand, Mitcham, Victoria, Australia, 1959, p.152.
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52 Ibid., pp.200-201.
53 Ibid., pp.68-69.
54 Ibid., p.91.
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55 Ibid., p.84-86.
56 ‘Religious Teaching in Public Schools’, The Nelson Examiner, 19 January 1870, p.5.
57 ‘Religious Teaching in Schools’, The Nelson Examiner, 21 October 1871, p.3.
58 Davidson and Lineham, pp.218-220.