Episode 30, 'The Kiliing Fields of Auckland', Part 2

It is November 1821, Hongi Hika is now ready to attack his primary objective, it is the Ngati Paoa strongholds of Mauinaina and Mokoia, on the western side of the Tamaki River. This episode has more detail on the two Pa and then continues to cover the fall of the Pa as told in the account of Anaru Makiwhara to George Graham. Source material for this episode: Hongi Hika -Warrior Chief by Dorothy Urlich Cloher Maungarei by K.M.Holloway Musket Wars by R D Crosby The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol 32, 1923 link: http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/documen...