Pukehinahina Charitable Trust

150th Commemoration Battle of Gate Pa

Planned Programme of Events 2013 - 2014 October 2013 – Poetry

February 2014 - Essays for Secondary Students

February 2014 – Speeches for Secondary Students

Readings from Battle at the Gate for primary schools

March 2014 – Guided tours brochure produced for heritage sites

Planned Programme of events March 2014 March 2014 Exhibition of photographs and drawings at

St George’s Church Gate Pa opens

Models of Gate Pa and Te Papa go on display at Tauranga Airport and The Elms

Tauranga Art Gallery exhibition of the drawings of Horatio Gordon Robley 68th Regt

Armstrong cannon @ Westpac Devonport Road plus illustrations from Battle at the Gate

Planned programme of events April 2014 Pukehinahina kapa haka performances begin

Gate Pa public lecture series - Lt Col Cliff Simons

Breakfast at Te Papa – contemporary dance

Drama: The Gate Pa monologues

NZ String Quartet – music of the time

Concert – songs of the time

Navy Arrives – public visits to ship

The Navy Cross at the Mission Cemetery - 1964

25 April - Anzac Day

Planned programme of events April 2014 26 April Unveiling of plaques at other historic sites –

Durham, Judea and Artillery Battery site

26 April Firing of the guns – Armstrong cannons and Coehorn mortars – Tauranga Domain – 3 salutes

Coehorn Mortars in action

Armstrong 6-pounder cannon

New Zealand Army Band 26 April 2014 concert

28 April 2014 Commemorative Dinner

28 April 2014 Visitors Powhiri – Huria Marae

29 April 2014 Dawn blessing ceremony for Gate Pa pou whenua

29 April 2014 9am Morning service at Mission Cemetery – wreath laying

29 April - Noon – NZ Army band Lunchtime Concert - Greerton

29 April @ 3.30pm – March up Cameron Road

29 April @ 4pm Massed iwi – Wero and haka

Ecumenical Service

30 April – Afternoon tea with the Governor General – The Elms

21 June 2014 Battle of Te Ranga Commemoration

Gate Pa Reserve – concept plan

Te Ranga Concept Plan

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