The pā at Waerenga ā Hika, scene of fighting in 1865

The photograph was taken in 1948 after severe flooding, with the iagoon' showing as a silty lake bed. The ditch and bank of a pre-European pā, forming a rectangle about 90 by 60 m in plan, shows clearly. The bank is far higher than that shown on contemporary photographs of the pā of 1865, however. The other, second pā extended some 150 m to the north, covering part of the modern graveyard, top right, extending from the road to the river bank. The Anglican mission station and school was at middle right, east of the road. The road is about 18 m across, and the modern Anglican Church, Saint Luke's, is the large building with the distinctive curved driveway to its rear.