Gate Pa

Image: Aero Surveys NZ Ltd., Tauranga Heritage Collection

This photograph was taken by Aero Surveys in November 1970. It focuses on the area in which the Battle of Pukehinahina (Gate Pa) took place. St George’s Anglican Church, which opened in 1900, can be seen in the lower right of this image. In 1992 an electrical fire damaged the church building beyond repair. Kauri beams from the old church were saved and integrated into a new building on the same site.