Dig Next Week At Smelter Site
(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, May 15. An archaeological rescue operation will begin next week at a small beach likely to vanish if construction of an aluminium smelter is started on Tiwai Point, in Bluff Harbour.
At the request of the director of the Southland Museum (Mr A. MacKenzie) th < operation was arranged by Dr C. Higham, of the University of Otago. It will be led by Mr S. Park, ethnologist of the Otago Museum. The organisers hope that 10 to 15 students will work for a week to 10 days on the site, which was found this month to
have been a Maori adze “factory” possibly dating from the earliest times. “The more we see of the site, the more significant it becomes,” said Mr MacKenzie today. When Mr MacKenzie first saw the locality five years ago there was no indication of its archaeological value. He believes that the hundreds of artifacts recovered this month were exposed by the wind and sea during the April storms.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31680, 16 May 1968, Page 1
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