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Volume 53, 1921
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Boulcott's Farm Post.

At this place the troops were camped in tents and farm buildings without any protection, hence we have no defensive works on which to remark. The attack of the 16th May, 1846, was the natural sequence of establishing this singular form of military post. The site of it was near the spot marked on the map issued by the Lands Department, and entitled, “Wellington Country District: showing Native Names.”