Extracts from a Diary during Heke's War in the North in 1845
to the memory of Tamate Waka Nene
to the memory of Tamate Waka Nene,
chief of ngapuhi,
the first to welcome the queen's sovereignty in new zealand, a consistent supporter of the ‘pakehas.’
This stone is erected by the Government of the Colony, which for upwards of thirty-one years he faithfully upheld.
Sage in counsel,
Renowned in war.
He died regretted by all the inhabitants of these Islands, at Russell, on the 4th August, 1871.