This memorial stands in the Te Puni Street urupā – burial ground – in Petone. It commemorates prominent Te Ātiawa leader Honiana Te Puni’s ‘unbroken friendship’ with Pākehā.
Surveyors arrived in Port Nicholson to lay out plans for the proposed New Zealand Company settlement of Britannia at Pito-one (Petone). This site would prove unsuitable, prompting a move across the harbour to the present-day site of Wellington.
