He tohu | whakamaharatanga | mo | Rawiri Puhiraki | he rangatira no Ngaitirangi | mana i arataki te pakanga a te Maori ki te Pakeha e te pa I Pukehinahina i te 29 o Aperira | 1864, i te pa ano huri i Te Ranga i | te 21 o Hune 1864, a i hinga ia i | Te Parekura i Te Ranga. | He rangatira a Rawiri I aromatia | kuitia e ona iwi Maori katoa me te | tino whakamoemiti hoki o nga Pakeha katoa ki a ia i runga i tona. | Toa ki te riri mo tana aroha ano hoki ki | Nga Pakeha i tu a kiko me Nga Pakeha i noho noa | iho, ka waiho ra nga mahi rangaitira a nunui ma | hei tauira mo te whakahaerenga o a matou mahi a | muri mei koia I whakaturia ai e matou tenei kowhatu | hei tohu whakamaharatanga tonutanga mona | hei tonu hoki mo to matou aroha me te nui o to | matou whakameomiti ki tenei rangatira nui.

Sacred | to the memory of | Rawiri Puhiraki | a chief of the Ngaiterangi tribe | who led the Maoris in battle at Gate Pa | on April 29th and at Te Ranga on June 21st | 1864, being killed in the latter engagement. | This monument was erected | on the fiftieth anniversary of his death | by people of the British and Maori races | to commemorate his chivalrous and | humane orders for the protection of unarmed | or wounded men who fell into the hands of | the Maoris and for the respectful treatment | of the bodies of any of their enemies slain | in battle. This order framed by Rawiri | with the assistance and approval of Henare Taratoa | and other Chiefs, was loyally observed by his | followers, and after the repulse of the assault | on Gate Pa, the British wounded who lay all | night in and around the Pa were given water and | treated with kindness. | This chivalrous conduct of the Maori leader and | his people so impressed their contemporaries | that Rawiri's body was exhumed in 1870 from the | trenches at Te Ranga and was reinterred at this spot | with befitting ceremonies. | The seeds of better feeling between the two races | thus sown on the battlefield have since borne ample | fruit: disaffection has given place to loyalty, | and hostility to friendship, British and Maori now | living together as one united people. | June 21st 1914.

Reverse: In memory | of | Henare Taratoa | killed at Te Ranga | June 21st 1864.