A find was made by Mr. L. Nicholas j on his property at Temuka -recently, ; when he uneavthed, about five feet under ‘ the surface, a stone adze of a rare shape, . which must have been buried for many • years. The adze is very well made, and j of unpolished grey stone. The length is , lOin, and it is three incites and a quarter in breadth, and one inch and three- ; quarters in thickness. The cutting edge is hollow ground, in this point differing from tho usual straight-ground edge of the true Maori adze.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 8
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