James Stack (1 September 1801 – 18 April 1883) was a Wesleyan Methodist missionary at Kaeo, New Zealand, in the 19th century.
Stack emigrated with an elder brother to New South Wales where he was employed as a store-keeper on a farm owned by John Macarthur.
The vessel was engaged in an official survey of Torres Strait, the Dampier Archipelago and a circumnavigation of the coast of Australia to map places not already examined by Capt.
In 1826 Hongi Hika, a Māori rangatira (chief) and war leader of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe), moved to conquer Whangaroa.
[7][8] Trouble with the Māori caused his transfer to the Bay of Islands where he remained,[2] until in late 1837 Stack reopened the Te Papa Mission at Tauranga, together with the Rev.
[9] The mission had been closed in March 1836 following a war party led by Te Waharoa, the leader of the Ngāti Hauā iwi, arriving at Tauranga.
From 1842 to 1846 he was at the Rangitukia Mission, which was located 10 km (6.2 mi) south of East Cape, close to the mouth of the Waiapu River.