Old Car Tapairu, Waipawa
June 1, 2010 by Gail
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Rangitukia woman Kura Wahirangi Kaa has been acknowledged in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours List with a Queen’s Service Order for services to the restoration of historic places. Mrs Kaa (nee Walker) was born and raised at Tutumatai, Mangaoporo Valley in her early years until the family moved to Rangitukia in 1948.
Mrs Kaa, 70, has organised the restoration of Hawke’s Bay and East Coast historic places for many years. During the early 1970s Mrs Kaa rallied the people of Waipawa to restore Tapairu Pa which was then in a dilapidated state and condemned by local council.
Church at Tapairu, Waipawa
Located at 3 Marae Street, Tapairu, Waipawa this Chruch is also known as St Philips Church, the ‘Church of the Brazen Serpent’ and the Waipawa Pastorate Church.
It was built in 1900 in commemoration of Hori Ropiha who travelled to England with the Maori King Tawhiao when he presented a petition to Queen Victoria requesting a separate Maori Parliament and a Independent Commission of Enquiry into confiscations of Maori land.
