Blood-stained kauri gum, a coil of rope 155 ft in length and fitted with a boatswain's chair, and a stump of wood were the exhibits in a compensation claim brought bv a half-caste Maori Eumclimber in the Arbitration Court a't Auckland. The Maori, it was stated, had lost two finders when "bleeding" a kauri tree £l)rough his tomahawk slipping. In order to settle the point as to whether, after lowering himself from his lofty perch, the wounded man could, with one hand, coil and tie tin the rope. Mr Justice Fraaer tnld him to do it in the court. Th« Maori then mnde the' roiT fast with i one hand. Thf> hlood-stained tomahawk was not produced.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17748, 27 April 1923, Page 3
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