parihaka

A quick wander at lunch time up to the cemetry again to revisit the Parihaka monument.

Dunedin was where the majority of prisoners from Parihaka were sent. They were used as slave labour to build roads - you can still go to the cells where they were kept, holes in the rock with steel doors, metres from the sea which would flood the holes when the tide was high.

Ask an average Dunedinite about this and they have no idea. Despite this being (reportedly) one of Ghandi's key inspirations.

The inscription reads:
E kore au e mate
Ka mate ko te mate
Ka ora tonu aau.

I shall not die
When death itself is dead
I shall be still alive.

Pai Marere