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- Karori Ghosts
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - ‘Cemetery Reported to be Haunted’ We found this article from July 1939.
  - Accepted from Friends of Karori Cemetery stories 3 hours ago by feedreader
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- Marion Martin
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - ‘Mrs Martin was one of the oldest residents in Wellington, and was highly esteemed for her plain unostentatious kindness of disposition’. Marion Baird was born in Fountainhall, a hamlet southeast...
  - Accepted from Friends of Karori Cemetery stories 3 hours ago by feedreader
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- Jacob William Heberley (Hākopa Hēperi) | Carver
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Jacob was the sixth child of James ‘Worser’ Heberley and his wife Te Wai (also known as Māta Te Naihi), of the Puketapu people of Te Āti Awa. James and...
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- Thomas Ward | Engineer & Surveyor 1849-1934
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Thomas was born in Oxford, England and trained as an engineer, working on the Great Northern Railway and at University College, London. He came to New Zealand in 1873 and...
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- Working Bee Find
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - This beautiful object was found by one of our volunteers at our October 2025 Working Bee in Gum Gully. Our volunteer very carefully cleaned the floral tribute as well.
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