The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I (1845–64)
After a sketch by Mr. S. Percy Smith] — Putataka, Port Waikato, 1864
After a sketch by Mr. S. Percy Smith]
Putataka, Port Waikato, 1864
Extract from Mr. S. Percy Smith's diary: “10th October, 1864.—Pulled from survey camp at Maioro down to Putataka to take some angles and spend a couple of hours in looking about the place. There were the steamer ‘Koheroa’ undergoing repairs, the ‘Avon’ being dismantled, having done her work on the Waipa nobly, and the ‘White Slave,’ a new steamer, being built, besides the building of barges and boats. There are several large and good stores for commissariat purposes, both Imperial and colonial, barracks, and officers' quarters on a hill overlooking the dockyard; a few men of the 14th Regiment are in garrison.”