The Pongakawa School memorial gates were unveiled on 19 July 1929. The two plain concrete pillars supported a wrought iron gate. Black granite plaques on the pillars listed the names of 11 local men who had given their lives. The gates were restored in 2013.
Sources: J.N. Blaymires, Early Pongakawa, Te Puke, 1952, p. 24; Blaymires, J.N., Seventy-five Years Later: A History of the Pongakawa School, Te Puke, 1967, p. 25; Christine Clement, Te Puke and District World War One Memorial, Te Puke, 2013, pp. 7, 27, 90.
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