WALKING STICK LOST
Gift From Duke Of Gloucester A square stick with a silver knob and a silver band, bearing the inscription: “H.R.H. Duke of Gloucester, December 20. 1934,” has been lost in Carlton Mill road. Mrs Te Heke-Rangatira Boyd, an elder of the Ngati-Kahungunu tribe of the Wairarapa valley, who is visiting her children in Christchurch, left it there. She had been resting on a low fence while waiting for a bus, and forgot the stick when she boarded the bus. Craftsmen of Mrs Boyd’s tribe built the Maori canoe which is displayed in the Canterbury Museum. It was carved in commemoration of their return from Hawke’s Bay to their ancestral lands in the Wairarapa in the 1830’s.
Mrs Boyd’s own name, which means “migration of the chiefs.” is the name borne by the canoe.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28530, 8 March 1958, Page 12
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