sentences:  Bishop Pompallier sent Viard in May 1840 to set up a mission station at Tauranga with the help of a Maori catechist, Romano.On 4 June 1841 Pompallier made Viard his vicar general or second in charge, and recalled him to Kororareka.Viard accompanied him on his voyages around New Zealand on the mission schooner "Sancta Maria".