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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 153, 1 July 1938, Page 2

The hull of a large sea-going Maori canoe has ben presented to the Canterbury Museum. The canoe, which is the gift of the Blenheim Borough Council, and is about 40 feet long, is considered by authorities to be of great historical and scientific value. Only one other specimen exists in New Zealand, in the Auckland Museum. The canoe, hollowed from a single toatra tree, was orig inally given to the Blenheim Borough Council in 1925 by Mr F. H. Kutland, ot Seddon. It was then placed in Pollard Park, Blenheim. Although the canoe was built as late as 1869, the actual work was done by Maori craftsmen employing the traditional Maori methods of canoe building. Such sea-going canoes are rare, because during the Maori wars all of them that could be found were destroyed under military orders.