William Yate

William Yate (3 November 1802 – 26 July 1877) was one of the earliest New Zealand missionaries and writers who worked for the Church Mission Society.

Yate learned the Māori language and had Christian texts printed in Sydney for his work.

Yate took a small printing press with him to the Bay of Islands and used it to produce a version of the third catechism in Māori, Ko te katihama III.

With only a fortnight's training as a printer in Sydney, New South-Wales, however, he found the task exasperatingly difficult and attempted nothing further on his press.

[5] In 1830 he was appointed to lead Te Waimate mission,[6][7] however reports of his sexual encounters with young Māori men became a matter of controversy and he was dismissed from the CMS in June 1834.