Kaiaha of Ngatitamainu is listed in The Taranaki Herald of 10 November 1860, a list of Maori identified by Renata, who was ordered to pass along the row of bodies and give their names to Mr Parris and Mr Hay. He is not listed in the official report not published lists in the GBPP or Gazette.

Prickett (2005) writes "It is not easy to derive an authoritative list from the various sources .... The 19 names listed by Robert Parris in Pratt’s report (GBPP1861) are of those recovered dead on the battlefield. Four additional names in the newspaper list are likely to be the wounded who died soon after. If the conclusion is correct that the extra names on The Taranaki Herald list are those of wounded who died after the initial identifications at Mahoetahi, then we have names for all six wounded men brought in by British troops after the battle.

If this is correct then he was buried on Thursday, 8 November, two days after the battle.

The Chiefs and mortally wounded men brought into town were buried in the St Mary's vicarage garden, Vivian Street, New Plymouth, at the time this was part of the churchyard and not the vicarage garden which it was to become (Alington 1988:71). The Maori casualties lie some distance from European graves on the other side of the church. The burials took place on Thursday, 8 November, two days after the battle, The Taranaki Herald (10 November 1860) reporting: ‘At 12 o’clock, noon, the bodies of the three chiefs, and the three natives who died from their wounds, were buried in St. Mary’s Churchyard, the funeral service (in Maori) being read by Archdeacon Govett. The bodies were placed in coffins, and buried in two graves.’ The Rev. Robert Ward, Primitive Methodist minister, wrote in his diary that the funeral was attended by a few people, mostly Maori (Ward ms: 8 Nov 1860). The graves were unmarked until 1929 when W.H. Skinner arranged with the Department of Internal Affairs to have the present stone in red Balmoral granite put in place (Fig. 9). It was unveiled on 28 January 1930 by Mrs Mary Evans, daughter of Archdeacon Govett (Alington 1988:71). The inscription on the stone over the graves reads: "MAORI WAR- IN HONOURED MEMORY - OF - ... AND TWO OTHERS."

Prickett (2005) writes of the ‘two others’ are the wounded prisoners who died either during the troops’ return to New Plymouth on the afternoon of 6 November or in town that night. These will be two of three men: Kaiaha of Ngatitamainu, Hemi of Ngatiruru, or Kaiamaha Tamahiki of Ngatingawairo. The first to die was probably buried in the mass grave at Mahoetahi.

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