WHAREPOURI'S MASK
PROTECTION REFUSED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
MASTERTON, This Day. Mr. E. J. Barton, who applied to the Scenery Preservation Board on behalf of the Whakataki natives to have Wharepouri's mark on the Whakataki beach protected has received a reply from the board to the effect that the spot was not considered of sufficient historical interest to justify its protec tion.
Wharepouri's mark is a sandstone pillar, erected in 1842, to signify the peace between the Mokau natives, who were then in possession of Wellington and who had invaded Wairarapa, and the tribes of the East Coast, who had been'driven to seek the protection of the Hawkes Bay tribes.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 22, 26 July 1927, Page 10
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109WHAREPOURI'S MASK Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 22, 26 July 1927, Page 10
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