 During the year ending 31 December 1840, he had printed 10,000 Catechisms, 11,000 Psalms, other religious texts and material for the schools; as well as 200 copies of the "Government Gazette" for the colonial government.He was ordained a Deacon on 22 September 1844 following his theological studies at St John’s College, which was then located at Te Waimate mission.He was an avid botanist; detailing and transmitting to Kew Gardens in England previously unrecorded New Zealand flora.