Port Molyneux : the story of Maori and pakeha in South Otago : a centennial history : commemorating the landing of George Willsher and his companions at Willsher Bay, June 28, 1840 : with a programme for the unveiling of the centennial cairn, erected by the Clutha County Council, June 28, 1940
A Modern Valuation
A Modern Valuation.
W. F. Alexander and H. D. Skinner, in describing the ravages of Te Rauparaha, say:—
“The principal war chiefs with whom the invader must reckon were Taiaroa and Tuhawaiki… The other high chief of Kai Tahu was Tuhawaiki… He impressed all the European observers who met him as a leader with great attributes, and Hay states that the lives of the early settlers in Canterbury were saved by his intervention. It would appear that by his early death in 1844 Kai Tahu lost a chief who would have more than filled Taiaroa's place.”