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Victoria University Press
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600 Wellington
New Zealand

Copyright © text and original photographic material,
Department of Conservation 1994

Copyright © in other photographs, see page 275

ISBN 0 86473 268 6

First published 1994

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Publication of this book was assisted by grants from the Science Research Committee of the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board

Cover. Pouera, a volcanic cone pā on the Taiamai plains, inland Bay of Islands

The view is into the main crater. On the rim of the crater are the segmented defences of the pā. At bottom centre is another pā on a remnant of a former rim. The view is to the north and the crater opening is 350 m wide.

Frontispiece. Rua a Rehua, a pre-European and early nineteenth-century pā near Puna, East Coast

The pā encloses an area about 300 m long and 50 m wide along the bank of the Waikohu River at left. The ditch and bank is double on the distant perimeter and on the projecting part in the foreground. Inside the projecting ditch and bank are a number of faint depressions, possible gunpits. In the left foreground, the ditch and bank has been bulldozed and ploughed out. This locality was the scene of fighting in the musket wars of the 1820s, and the gunfighting modifications may belong to that period. The view is to the north.

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