Please refer to the "Related Web Page" at the top of this page where you can read Hirini Te Kani-A-Takirau, obituary in the Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7672, 7th July 1896.
Located in a little known cemetery at 11 Hirini Street, Gisborne. The street's name-sake, Hirini Te Kani-A-Takirau's grave can be found amongst ten other visible headstones dating between 1838 to 1896. Excerpt from obituary: At the time of his passing, Hirini Te Kani was the oldest and highest ranking rangatira on the East Coast. No chief had greater sway among his tribes than Hirini, and no chief was more loyal to the Government or more friendly to the Europeans than he. Te Kani's power lay not in his fighting proclivities, for he was ever a man of peace, but in force of character. He was not self-assertive, but firm in the extreme. He never took prominent part in negotiations unless it was absolutely necessary for him to do so. He would allow things to take their own course so long as they tended in the direction of his wishes, but when he saw that matters were going contrary to his desires, then he spoke, and though his words were few his meaning was very plain. Nor was he ever known to go back on his word. The dead rangatira had the longest genealogy of any chief on the Coast, and was one of the blue blood class of Maoris.
The Cache:
The cache is a well camouflaged 200ml sistema container. At time of placing the cache it contained a write-in-the-rain log, pencil and geocoin. Please replace the cache in exactly the same position thank you.
The Terrain Rating:
The cache is located on a flat grassy area that is mostly dry, which with a little abled bodied help this cache would be called wheelchair accessible, so can be enjoyed by all.
Joint First to Find honours awarded to:MamaMq and Rach Down Under
Note:
Since placing this cache a homeless person has made a home in the bushes at the rear of the cemetery. A few logs appear to be making this more of an issue than it is, common sense rules.