PHOTO: MARY-JO TOHILLOn a bush-clad spur near Kaka Point in the Catlins stands a cemetery, an urupa. I’ll be doing all right I reckon.’’It was particularly poignant that a few weeks after this interview, grave goods from his grandmother Stella Rakiraki’s headstone, lovingly arranged by Mr Scott, were stolen. While Mr Scott (73) did not grow up at Kaka Point but in nearby Dunedin, he holidayed there as a child, with his grandmother. Someone had to do something about it,’’ Mr Scott said. It closed because of a dwindling roll, and the land was given back to the Rakiraki family, in 1930.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 24, 2021 16:30 UTC