VALUABLE MAORI RELICS
FINDS MADE AT WAIHI (PBEBB fcSIOCUTIOX TB.Ll9ti.lf.) WAIHI, July 28. Valuable finds of ancient Maori relics are being made at Waihi beach in the course of road making and swamp draining which is being carried out on an extensive scale. The finds include several valuable greenstone and stone implements, a large stone carving of a human head, stone fire ember carriers, stone adzes, and numerous other articles. Mr S. M. Hovell, ethnologist to the Bay of Plenty Museum, reporting on the finds, said that the area, extending from Waihi stream to Bowentown Heads, had been the centre of a very large Maori population, by the number of terraced pas, shell middens, and cooking places.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22466, 29 July 1938, Page 3
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