While excavating for a. <Jam on a property at Gladstone, Wairarapa,- a farm hand'urfeattheij tvrti small native clubs fnnbtoned from hard matra wood and in. excellent state of preservation. These clubs were used py the ancient Maoris for pounding fern root before cooking, angitis corvid' ered that they Kavfe not hbfen utilised by Maoris for some- 80 or 100 years. It has been decided to placfe the articles in the Mastertpn School
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12529, 15 April 1935, Page 4
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