Whanau celebrate their tipuna - Wyllie/Boylan
By Sue Elizabeth Ralston Haxton, 15th November 2020. The inscription on the headstone is not easy to read in the photos in this article....
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Oct 9, 20201 min read
The Waerenga-a-hika Monument - a New Zealand War memorial.
This monument is located near the Makaraka Main Road, in Block B, Plot 81.
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Sep 30, 20201 min read
The Matawhero Monument - A New Zealand Wars Memorial
Susan Libline, Annette Blair, Gillian Ward - September 2020 (and ongoing) Brief sketches of the people and their lives and families, who...
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Sep 30, 20201 min read
The Stonemasons' work
The three stonemason businesses in Gisborne are all working on the job of reinstating the recovered headstones. Originally the grave...
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Sep 30, 20201 min read
Recovered Headstones being reinstated
With the help of the Lotteries grant the headstones that were recovered from a trench at Makaraka Cemetery are gradually being...
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Compiled by Gillian Ward
Sep 29, 20201 min read
The people whose headstones were buried, then much later, recovered.
Who were those people whose cemetery plot headstones were selected for safe-keeping, while so many other were demolished in the early...
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