WAIRAU MASSACRE
EIGHTIETH ANNIVERSARY. Sunday was the 80th anniversary of the Wairau massacre. This event was the outcome of an affray that look place between a band of Maoris led by To Rauparaha and his son-in-law, Te Rangihaeata, and a Euru.peau party from Nelson, under Captain Arthur Wakefield, agent lor the New Zealand Company. The party, which comprised about 50 men, had gone from Nelson u> the Wairau to arrest the two chiefs on a charge of burning the hut of the surveyors who were engaged in surveying some laud concerning the ownership M which there was a disagreement. A fight ensued, several <-f Captain Wakefield's men being killed. The others surrendered, but nearly half of them were massacred a: the-command of Te Rangihaeata, whose wife had been killed by a stray bullet. Captain Wakefield w:.= among tho-.- who Dst their lives.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LI, Issue 8319, 21 June 1923, Page 3
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142WAIRAU MASSACRE Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LI, Issue 8319, 21 June 1923, Page 3
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