THE LAST POST (AUCKLAND) Traditional Cache
TheCoddiwompler: I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.
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The Mangatawhiri Stream is a minor tributary of the Waikato which entered history when King Tawhiao’s followers declared it the aukati, or border, of his realm in the early 1860s. For the British troops who looked across the Mangatawhiri from the end of the Great South Road in the days and weeks before the invasion of the Waikato Kingdom, and for the Kingite soldiers who stared back at them, the stream represented the boundary between two worlds, with two different languages, cultures, and economic systems. After the invasion of Tawhiao’s nation in 1863, the village of Mercer was built over the ruins of a Maori settlement close to the place where the Mangatawhiri meets the Waikato. The Great South Road was pushed south towards the armed settlement of Hamilton, a railway line was established, and the Mercer Railway Hotel hosted travellers between the colonial stronghold of Auckland and the newly subjugated lands of the Waikato. In 1889 the prophet and former guerrilla fighter Te Kooti was expelled from Auckand, after spending a short period in Mount Eden Prison for peacefully promoting his Ringatu religion. On his way back to his base in the eastern North Island, Te Kooti, who was fond of liquor, spent a night in an old building called the Railway Inn just next to the Last Post Tavern (the Last Post was unceremoniously named 'Podge's Place' in May 2014) . The old Railway Inn was moved to a nearby airfield and became a backpackers for skydivers. Today Podge's Place still trades at Mercer, catering to long-distance truckies and tourist buses. THIS IS THE END OF OUR SERIES FOLKS. Visit the museum, have a beer at 'Podge's Place' and demand that they conform with the edict of the United States of Mind. This geocache is part of the Great South Road Geocache Experiment that was initiated at the Papakura Art Gallery Exhibition 'A Sense of Place', sponsored by Auckland City Council.
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