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Otago Witness, Issue 3769, 8 June 1926, Page 77

In the days of the early Maoris, tha Haast Pass was one of the routes used bv the foray parties and also tor tne quest of the much-prized wai-pounaimi, the West Coast greenstone. A recent, visitor to Okura was shown a sackful of ancient adzes which a local settler rad ploughed up in the neighbourhood .and obtained while engaged upon road-making between Haast and Okura. He had been told that several old ovens and “kitchen middens” were near the Haast. He waa of the opinion that the ethnologist and] the curio hunter would find the district in the vicinity of the Haast River a prolific field in his search for tokens of an \ earlier age.