The museum site is a massacre site that is, in fact, a grave site of treachery. See pages 190-191 of R D Crosby's ‘The Musket Wars'.
Whatever is put there, be it museum or building, should tell the story and reflect the short lives of those who were massacred there in 1828. Seven hundred lives reported lost in an intertribal utu action is substantial.
D Mackay, Papamoa.
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Dear Mr Mackay
Posted on 22-12-2017 12:59 | By MISS ADVENTURE
1828 you say? Utu you say, Sounds like a repeat of the Gate Pa saga (except the truth of that story has been butchered a lot more). Irrespective of teh stroy, truth or otherwise of it then site should be respected and left alone in that case. I would suggest a one meter slab or mudstone or something picked up off the beach, anything will do. Then simple a bit of paint applied - job done, save $50m and $10m/pa
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