MAORI RELICS
VALUABLE DISCOVERY WAIHI BEACH REVELATIONS CARVING OF HUMAN HEAD GREENSTONE IMPLEMENTS [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN ( OHHESrONDENT] WAIITI, Wednesday Valuable; finds of ancient Maori relics arc being made at tin; Waihi Hcach in the course of the road making and swamp draining being carried out on an extensive scale by the Waihi Uorougli Council under tho Government's uncmployinent scheme. The. finds include valuable greenstone and stone implements, a largo stone carving of a human head, stone tire-ember carriers, several stone adzes and numerous otlior artifacts.
Mr. S. M. Ilovell, of Wnihi, ethnologist to tho Bay of Plenty Museum, reporting on the finds, states that the area extending from tho Wnihi Stream to JJowentown Heads was a centro of a very large Maori population, as was evidenced by tho number of terraced pas, shell middens and cooking places.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23101, 28 July 1938, Page 14
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