kioreroa Cemetery Whangarei : Memorial Unveiling 26 October 2009
October 26th 2009 This cemetery goes back to the earliest days of European settlement in Whangarei.From 1882 until 1946 some 1000 burials were carried out at the Kioreroa cemetery. However, it had become neglected over the last fifty years and many graves and stones had been damaged or removed. Some of the land was even sold off for industrial development. Since 2007 a lot of effort has been put into restoring the
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