The Governor-General, Sir Paul Reeves, and Lady Reeves in the basement of the Canterbury Museum yesterday with part of a waka (canoe)
The waka, Paroa, was made by Sir Paul’s great-great-great-great - grandfather, Rang! Tuwatawata, of Te Ati Awa iwi, about 200 years ago.
His son, Rihari Tahuaroa, and the canoe were later to take part in an attack led by Te Rauparaha on the Kaiapohia pa near Woodend.
The canoe was then taken to Arapawa Island in the Marlborough Sounds, where it gradually fell into disrepair after years of being left
in the open. In 1934 the sound part of the canoe, 4m long, was given to the museum by its owner, Mr Tim Watson.
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