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The Cook County Council has decided to clean up the Makaraka ceme-tery by removing broken and neglected headstones and monuments and tidying up the place in general. This cemetery has historic significance in that most of Poverty Bay's pioneers are buried here. The monument to those massacred in the Te Kooti raid of 1868 is also situated at the Makaraka cemetery but this is in good repair. The cemetery dates back to 1857 when it was bought from the Maori owners for $170. In 1915 the cemetery was closed to burials, except in plots already reserved, and the present one at Taruheru was opened.