Title / Name
Pukerimu Camp – How Cambridge Began

Brief Description
Typewritten manuscript by C W Vennell on early Cambridge.
"Events at Pukerimu between March and July in the year 1864, form an important prelude to the foundation of Cambridge, the town we live in today. On 14th July, the paddle steamer Rangiriri came up the river with the Minister of Colonial Defence, the Hon Thomas Russell; Major Charles Heaphy VC and several others.
"The party had come to decide finally on the site for a township to be occupied by the 3rd Waikato Militia Regiment."

Archive Number
A473

Primary Maker
C W Vennell

Period Covered
1864

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