John Bluck explores Pakeha identity today through the example of a long-forgotten Victorian missionary

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In a talk specially recorded for RNZ, John Bluck puts forward the case that the life of a forgotten Victorian missionary, Charles Reay, is a good role model for Pakeha in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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