After Fifty Years

This photograph, taken by the author at Orangikawa pa, Tatahoata, Urewera Country, in 1921, shows Captain Gilbert Mair at the grave of his old comrade Captain Travers and the men of the colonial forces killed in the attack on the pa fifty-two years previously. When Captains Mair and Preece marched into the Ruatahuna Valley in 1871 in search of Te Kooti and Kereopa they had the remains (which had been exhumed and scattered by Te Kooti's orders) reinterred with military honours near the gateway of the pa, and the poplar tree shown in the photo is one of two which were afterwards planted to mark the spot.