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The Old Frontier : Te Awamutu, the story of the Waipa Valley : the missionary, the soldier, the pioneer farmer, early colonization, the war in Waikato, life on the Maori border and later-day settlement
The Rev. B.Y. Ahwell's Mision Station, Kaitothehe, Waikato River — The site of this pre-war mission station was on the left bank of the Waikato, opposite Taupiri. this picture is a sketch made shortly before the war in 1863, by Lieut. (afterwards Colone) H. S. Bates of the 65th regiment, who was an A.D.C. to Sir George Grey and Staff Interpreter to General Cameron. Governor Grey's camp, on one of his Waikato Expeditions, is shown on the river bank (see Note in Appendices, p. 103.)
The Rev. B.Y. Ahwell's Mision Station, Kaitothehe, Waikato River
The site of this pre-war mission station was on the left bank of the Waikato, opposite Taupiri. this picture is a sketch made shortly before the war in 1863, by Lieut. (afterwards Colone) H. S. Bates of the 65th regiment, who was an A.D.C. to Sir George Grey and Staff Interpreter to General Cameron. Governor Grey's camp, on one of his Waikato Expeditions, is shown on the river bank (see Note in Appendices, p. 103.).