VALUABLE MAORI RELICS
WAIHI BEACH FINDS IMPLEMENTS & CARVINGS (Por Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Valuable finds of ancient Maori relics are being made at the Waihi Beach in the course of road-making and swamp draining being carried out on an extensive scale. The finds include several valuable greenstone and stone implements, a large stone carving of a human head, a stone lire ember carrier, _ stone adzes and numerous other artifices. Mr. S. M. Hovell, ethnologist to the Bay of Plenty Museum, reporting on the finds states that the area extending from Waihi Stream to Bowentown Heads was the centre ot a very large Maori population as was indicated by the number of terraced pas. shell middens and cooking places.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19695, 29 July 1938, Page 7
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119VALUABLE MAORI RELICS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19695, 29 July 1938, Page 7
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