Mrs Banian has enjoyed solving the puzzle and multi-cashes based in cemeteries and then strolling around the graves while the cache is retrieved. Porirua Cemetery is located within walking distance and we decided it would be an interesting place to locate a multi-cache.
There are nearly 4000 graves in the Porirua Cemetery, many of them unmarked. The cemetery is the resting place for more than 2000 former patients of the old Porirua psychiatric hospital. More than 2000 graves date from before 1946. The first burial was that of Charles Crabbe on 13 September 1895.
In earlier days the cemetery was subdivided into blocks depending on religion or if the person was a patient at the hospital. Most in the hospital block were buried prior to 1906.
Please respect the site. Children should be supervised at all times as vehicles do use the roads through the cemetery .
The given co-ordinates will lead you to the tool shed.
To find the cache go to the above co-ordinates, find the missing numbers by answering the questions, complete the calculations (they are not hard) go to the final location and retrieve the cache.
To locate the first WP
A The number of circles in the longest row above the door on the tool shed
WP 1 is located at S 41 08.766 E 174 50.48A
B You need the Digit of month of death for Gracie
WP 2 is located at S 41 08.7B3 E 174 50.436
C Number of letters in John Bremner’s wife name
WP 3 is located at S 41 08.759 E 174 50.C97
D The second digit of the day of the month of death of Ernest
WP 4 is located at S 41 08.D31 E 174 50.469
E Last digit of year of death of Catherine
WP 5 is located at S41 08.7E3 E174 50.493
F First digit of date of death of George Carter
WP 6 is located at S41 08.7F5 E174 50.460
G Last digit of year of death of John
WP 7 is located at S41 08.7G0 E174 50.444
H 4th digit (of 5) of date of death of Jack
WP 8 is located at S41 08.716 E174 50.52H
I Sum of Digits of Catherine Blight year of death
Check sum 60
The final resting place of the cache is S 41 08.JKL E 174.50.MNO
As there is already a traditional cache in the cemetery we have placed the final approximately 300 metres away. This final location is significant for its own reason, for more information have a look at the history of the hospital.
Where J is (AxC)/(B+E)
Where K is (I+1)/D
Where L is D-C
Where M is G-H+F
Where N is D
Where O is I/B
Check sum 25
Hope you enjoy the wander around this cemetery, for those of you from the Wellington region there will be many familiar surnames.