Location: Kawhia, Waikato, New Zealand

Surnames/tags: cemeteries New_Zealand
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Kāwhia Cemetery
Kāwhia township is on the north-western shore on Kāwhia Harbour, 50 kilometres north-west of Ōtorohanga. Kāwhia has great significance for Māori because it was the final landing place of the ancestral waka Tainui. The people of Tainui settled around Kāwhia Harbour.
Kāwhia Cemetery is administered by Otorohanga District Council, and is also known as Kāwhia Urupa Cemetery or Te Hokinga Mai Cemetery. Before this cemetery came into use there were burials on nearby Te Motu Island, and there were Maori burials in Muriwheuna, an undersea burial cavern, its entrance marked by an offshore rock called Te Kawau.
Location
Coordinates: -38.04418, 174.82743 The cemetery is in Lake Road, Kawhia.
Links
- Find-a-Grave - this has 389 entries
- BillionGraves - this has 405 entries
- Otorohanga Council Cemetery database search
Notable Interments
A memorial wall and gate were dedicated in the soldiers' section of the Kāwhia cemetery on Anzac Day 2002. The accompanying plaque lists 12 men from Kāwhia and district who gave their lives in the First World War and ten who gave their lives in the Second World War. It also lists the name of Barry Wahanui, who served in Borneo, Malaysia and Vietnam, and who died in a car accident in Malaysia in 1969.
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