The Times/1912/Obituary/John Joseph Knight Hutchin

The Rev. J. J. K. Hutchin

The Rev. J. J. K. Hutchin, whose death was briefly recorded in The Times of Monday, was the senior missionary of the London Missionary Society in Rarotonga, New Zealand.

Mr. Hutchin, who was 55 years of age, was the son of a Congregational minister at Newport, Essex, and had been engaged in missionary work in Rarotonga for 30 years. He was instrumental in influencing Makea the principal chieftainess of the Cook Islands, to apply for British protection and afterwards for the annexation of the group of islands by Great Britain. He was principal of a training college for native ministers and missionaries, and many of his students have gone as missionaries to new Guinea. He also edited the Rarotonga newspaper, Te Karere, and did a great deal of translation work. When spending a holiday with his relatives at Saffron Walden last year he was engaged in revising a translation of the Bible in the Rarotonga language, in translating other works for his students, and in preparing a dictionary of Polynesian dialects for the Polynesian Society.