captain hamilton, new zealand

Authorities in the city of Hamilton removed a bronze statue of Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton – the city’s namesake – who is accused of killing indigenous Maori people in the 1860s. Hamilton was one of 31 British killed at Pukehinahina, a battle that claimed the lives of 19 to 32 Māori. The Tauranga Campaign … Maipi told Stuff he did not regret threatening to vandalise a statue representing a "murderer", saying he would have used a hammer or tow truck. Vitriolic emails have even referred to lynching - all because of the statue of Captain Hamilton, which was removed from the city's Civic Square earlier this month.. For me it hasn't helped the cause," Taylor posted on Facebook. The settlement was named by Colonel William Moule after Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton, the commander of HMS Esk, who was killed in the battle of Gate Pā, Tauranga. Taylor said while he supported the bronze sculpture being temporarily removed purely to avoid it hurting someone, destroying the statue or the carpark structure below - he did not support the way Maipi or Tainui went about it. Hamilton councillors get to have their say about the Captain Hamilton statue this week. It is the right thing for the council to take the opportunity to look at the long-term plan for this artwork and determine where and how it might fit in to the city’s future.”He said there were public safety concerns as the statue is embedded into Civic Square and sits on top of an underground carpark.“If the statue were to be forcefully removed from its current position, as has been indicated, it could severely undermine the integrity of the building below it.”He said Hamilton was a “murderous arsehole” who was displayed in the city as though he was a hero.

Photo / File That moment was his last. Hamilton's deputy mayor is calling for the Huntly kaumātua who threatened to vandalise the Captain Hamilton statue to be prosecuted. Hamilton mayor Paula Southgate earlier told the Herald that the quick executive decision to remove the statue was a temporary measure made because of the threats that it would be attacked. Geoff Taylor's calls comes as the council prepares to publicly discuss the future of Captain Hamilton's statue at Wednesday's Community Committee for the first time after an executive decision was made earlier this month to pull it out after Taitimu Maipi threatened to pull it out himself during a Black Lives Matter protest march. He fell dead, pierced through the brain by a bullet, and many of his officers shared the same fate. She said there would be urgent discussions with councillors and the wider public about what they would like to see happen to it long-term. Named by Colonel William Moule in 1864, after Captain John Fane Hamilton, commander of HMS Esk, one of the naval squadron in New Zealand during the conflict in the Waikato. In February, the council’s strategic growth committee will finalise a review of policies for naming and renaming streets and the following month the community committee will chew over options and costs of potentially renaming some of those streets.

The life-size statue by Margriet Windhausen was gifted to Hamilton by the Gallagher Group in 2013. Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton died at the battle of Pukehinahina (Gate Pā) in Tauranga (then known as Te Papa) on April 29, 1864. Although Hamilton passed his examination for lieutenant on 10 November 1841, he then served as Mate aboard Hamilton was again promoted to Captain on 26 February 1858.Hamilton directly commanded a detachment of the 43rd Regiment and a party of sailors at the Captain Hamilton wore several mementoes of his gallantry, and the last and fatal act which distinguishes him as a gallant officer cannot be better described than in the words of our special correspondent – "The General, who was in the advanced trench of his position, ordered up the supports almost immediately after the storming party rushed the breach; and the second division of blue-jackets and the gallant 43rd, led by Captain Hamilton, of the 'Esk,' advanced with a ringing cheer to the support of the forlorn hope. In her report to Thursday’s committee meeting, policy and strategy advisor Joanna van Walraven said prudence was needed. This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason. Hamilton was one of 31 British killed at Pukehinahina, a battle that claimed the lives of 19 to 32 Māori. The statue's removal has been linked to calls for the removal of statues o… It just simply does, and it’s wrong and we should be part of that solution.“We’re not saying first of all that they should all be pulled down.

"I think Taitimu Maipi who made the threats against the statue should be prosecuted, given that this was his second offence, having damaged the statue in 2018." Maipi had previously attacked the Captain Hamilton statue in Civic Square by damaging his now with a sledgehammer and brushing red paint on it in protest at the city of Hamilton being named after the British captain who killed Māori in the Waikato land wars. Within a few months of the end of the Waikato wars in 1864, where British forces were victorious, town planners designed the layout according to the pattern of the Union Jack.On Thursday, Māori party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer called for an inquiry to identify and remove colonial monuments, statues and place names that symbolise racism and oppression.“It may not appear racist to some, but to those who it affects and to those whose history was most impacted, it does.