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 | | Walter Lawry Buller was born at the Wesleyan mission, Newark, at Pakanae, Hokianga, New Zealand, on 9 October 1838, the son of Jane Tonkin Martin and her husband, James Buller. |
 | | James Buller was both devout and forceful; he was accepted as a missionary soon after arriving at the Mangungu Wesleyan mission, Hokianga, from Sydney, in April 1836, served briefly at Pakanae and then for 15 years at Tangiteroria, Kaipara. |
 | | Walter Buller, the second of 10 children, grew up at Tangiteroria and was educated at the missionaries' Wesleyan College in Auckland. |
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