‘Curse’ brings back stolen club
Mrs Hettie Wells-Sawyers will not dispel tne tnought that a touch of socery played a part in the return of her stolen, centuries-old mere. The granite Maori war club was waiting for her when she returned from a holiday in the North Island on Tuesday. It was stolen from a display cabinet in her shot, Hettie’s Rock Shop, Birdwood Avenue, on August
29. But Mrs Wells-Sawyers says she was confident it would be returned. The reason, she claims, is because of a curse she put on the thief.
Mrs Wells-Sawyers found the mere 31 years ago during a dig at a pre-European pa site near Birdlings Flat. ... , , The mere turned up outside a neighbour s place wrapped in brown paper two days after the theft. She discovered it when she opened the mail on return from New Plymouth on Tuesday.
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