The Original Redoubt at Pukearuhe

This picture of Pukearuhe Redoubt was drawn by Mr. A. H. Messenger from a sketch by his father, the late Colonel W. B. Messenger, who with his Taranaki Military Settlers garrisoned it in the early “sixties”. A blockhouse was afterwards built in the redoubt, and the work was enlarged. Pukearuhe was occupied as a frontier Armed Constabulary post until the year 1885.