Waiheke Island - Local People, Local Knowledge
Waiheke Pioneer Cemetery
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One of Waiheke's earliest European settlements was at Te Matuku Bay. Just off the Orapiu Rd near (signposted) is the Pioneer Cemetery.
A transcription of the headstones can be found on the Waiheke Island Historical Society website.
In Loving Memory - Gladys Winifred Connell - A bud the gardener gave us, a pure and lovely child, he gave it to our keeping, to cherish undefiled, but just as it was opening, to the glory of the day, down came the heavenly gardener, and took our bud away
