Karori Stockade.

The site of this post has been fixed on the map. It was erected on Mr. Chapman's land at Karori in the “forties,” as a rallying-place and refuge for the surrounding settlers. It was erected under the supervision of Mr. A. C. Strode, on the high ground south of the main road and about opposite the English Church. It was apparently never utilized as a refuge.

Colonel Mundy wrote of Karori in 1847, “Here are several hundred acres partially cleared, and the remains of a stockade built for the defence of the rural community.”