ANCIENT MAORI RELICS
SEVERAL VALUABLE FINDS [Pee United Press Association.] WAIHI, July 28. Valuable finds of ancient Maori relics are being made at the Waihi Beach in the course of road making and swamp draining being carried out on an extensive scale. The finds include several valuable greenstone and stone implements,and a large stone carving of a human head. A stone fire ember carries stone adzes and numerous other artifices. Mr S. M. Hovell, ethnologist to the Bay of Plenty Museum, reporting on the finds stated that the area extending from Waihi Stream to Bowentown Heads was the centre of a very large Maori population as was evidenced by the number of terraced pas, shell middens, and cookilng places.
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Evening Star, Issue 23021, 28 July 1938, Page 12
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119ANCIENT MAORI RELICS Evening Star, Issue 23021, 28 July 1938, Page 12
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