The Takaka Pioneers’ Memorial
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The goal of this project is to gather and create profiles for the pioneers who settled in Golden Bay, in the Tasman Region of New Zealand.
The Takaka Pioneers' Memorial is in Pioneer Park and Museum reserve, between Commercial Street and Reilly Street in central Takaka, Golden Bay.
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- Nelson Evening Mail 31st March 1909 page 2 [1]
- TAKAKA'S PIONEERS
- UNVEILING THE MEMORIAL. It is understood that the Memorial erected at Takaka in honour of pioneer settlers was to be unveiled at Takaka today. The Monument is about 7ft square, at the base, and 19ft high overall. It is erected at the junction of three roads near the Takaka Recreation Ground, and it is constructed with reinforced concrete, cement plastered. It consists of three bases from which a drinking trough projects, supplied with water by means of a pump. The base has three large marble tablets let in on the front, and two sides, containing the inscription and names, cut in and leaded as follows : - Erected in commemoration of the Early Pioneers of Takaka -
Sources
- ↑ TAKAKA'S PIONEERS.,Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue 0, 31 March 1909 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19090331.2.20
- For a history of Takaka Pioneer Memorial see - Nelson Historical Society Journal, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2011 The Takaka Pioneers’ Memorial: Part l
- For those pioneers named on the Takaka Pioneer Memorial; see their names and other details researched by Ken Wright in the Nelson Historical Society Journal, Volume 7, Issue 4, 2012 The Takaka Pioneers’ Memorial Part II
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