§ 6. Removal of the Editor and chief Translator to Te Waimate, a distant Mission Station: his Separation from the Press.

Not long after the printing of the first book, in the autumn of that same year, the Rev. W. Williams, his wife and family, removed from Paihia (where they had resided for several years) to Te Waimate Mission Station, inland. At that time there was no resident clergyman at that place, nor nearer than Paihia (a long day's journey); besides he was now stationed there by the Committee of Missionaries, to conduct the large boarding school of the sons of the Missionaries, which was to be carried on there for the future. I mention this circumstance, as it page 10 separated (in distance) the chief Translator and Editor of the New Testament from the Press, which proved to be a great disadvantage, and serious hindrance to the carrying on and early completion of the work. At first, however, it was determined to build a large printing-office at Te Waimate; and in time the framework of the same was erected there;^* but as sawn timber; was not easily procurable (though in the midst of kauri forests), the work was delayed, and eventually it came to nothing.