The Symonds Street New Zealand Wars Memorial
Channel: Difficult Histories: The New Zealand Wars
Date: 2022-05-21

A memorial to all those who fought on the Crown side during the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars was erected on the corner of Symonds and Wakefield streets, in Auckland, in 1920. Built by the Victoria League with substantial government assistance, the memorial is, as Joanna Kidman and Vincent O’Malley discuss in this latest video, today one of many contested sites in terms of how the New Zealand Wars are remembered and has seen multiple attacks in recent years.