Rangiaowhai Resting Place (Waikato) Multi-Cache
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Rangiaowhai Resting Place (Waikato)
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This is St Paul’s, Hairini on Rangiaowhia Road.
St Paul's Church, Hairini, is one of the two oldest surviving buildings in the Waikato.
This area was where the Maori settlement of Rangiaowhia (now Hairini) was situated.
There was a large Maori settlement with Catholic and Anglican churches on a ridge surrounded by peach groves and fields of wheat, maize and potatoes.
A mission station was founded at Rangiaowhia in the 1840s. St Paul’s Church, built in 1856
The station provided education as well as agricultural expertise and materials to local Ngati Hinetu and Ngati Apakura in what was one of the largest Maori settlements in the Waikato.
By 1859 Rangiaowhia was described as a Maori town, with a racecourse and courthouse, growing wheat and other produce for the Auckland market.
One of the most controversial battles of the Waikato Wars took place here in 1864 when the British attacked an undefended Maori village destroying parts of it.
With the settlement subsequently abandoned, the building remained empty until it was repaired by the Anglican Diocese in the 1870s. St Paul's, as it became known, was then used as a parish church and briefly as a government school. It continues to be used for religious services.
The information needed is on site, access to the building is not needed. If it is being used please respect their privacy.
Find the date in August 1925 that Mary Ann Holden died.
Add it to the last 3 digits of the easting of the initial waypoint.
This is B.
Find the date in September 1879 that Francis John Bertram was born.
Subtract it from the last 3 digits of the Southing of the initial waypoint. This is A
Goecache is at
S38 00.A
E175 22.B
If you come at night locals may think you have sinister intentions.
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