Dug from the sands, within 50 vards of the Opononi wharf, a 22-ft Maori Canoe, apparently of the ocean-going type, has been retrieved by Mr 11. H. Goodson, headmaster of-the Whirinaki Native School, in the grounds of which he intends to place it after restoration work is done' to the gunwale, states the ' Auckland Star.' Only a small portion of the canoe bottom was shownig from the sands when the discovery was made. The canoe was cleaned and floated on the next tide nearer the Opononi Hotel, from where it can be removed by lorry. Streamlined in design, the canoe is built of solid to tarn. Shaped bv fire and adzo from one log, jt accommodates from four. ±o six men.
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Evening Star, Issue 25068, 8 January 1944, Page 4
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