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Ruakituri Cemetery Reserve

Wairoa District, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

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Get directions Wairoa District, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Coordinates: -38.68517, 177.33550
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Ruakituri Cemetery Reserve is located in bush off Pāpuni Road next to the Ruakituri River, several kilometres north-west of the tiny Hawke's Bay settlement of Ruakituri. The remote site, approximately 30 km north-west of Te Rēinga and 60 km north of Wairoa, is close to the intersection of the Hawke's Bay, Bay of Plenty and East Coast regions. On 8 August 1868, Ruakituri was the scene of a skirmish between government forces and those of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki. The Gisborne District Police erected this memorial cairn in Ruakituri Cemetery Reserve in 1986, the centennial year of the New Zealand Police. In both Māori and English, the memorial recounts the events leading up to the battle at Ruakituri.
The memorial also records the names of Coates, Condon, Byrne and Rihara, whose exact burial places appear to be unknown; Byrne, for example, is thought to have been buried some distance down-river. The memorial stands beside the graves of Canning and Carr.

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