Dead Cert

Stories from Thames, Paeroa and Waihi Cemeteries.

Meghan Hawkes, former columnist for the Peninsula Press, Thames, has gathered together a selection of her much loved Dead Cert columns – the stories behind the headstones.

Poignant and intriguing, the tales give a voice to a pioneer past long vanished in the silence of the cemeteries.

These stories originally appeared in the Peninsula Press column ‘Dead Cert.’