The image displays a historical text about Richard Davis, born in Dorset and married Mary Crocker before being appointed by the CMS as a prosperous agriculturalist for missionary work. Davis worked in Paiaia in 1824 and Richard, a gardener, until in 1831 he moved to Waimate North and was a great success as supervisor of its farm, creating a wide range of produce, together with a threshing barn, winningning machine, and flourmill, in an almost English landscape. Davis even grew an English oak from an acorn he had brought from Dorset, and in 1843 he became a successful mission station in its own right, with William Williams also moving there. Davis was ordained deacon and in 1844 became vicar at Kailohe. In 1852 he was ordained priest. Davis also became Secretary of the Northern District of the CMS. In 1837 his wife, with whom he had nine children, died, and he married twice more before his death in 1863.