CENTENNIAL CANOES
Two more sections of huge totara tree trunks roughly hewn in the sihape of canoe hulls, which are to be used by the Waikato Maoris for tihe four canoes they are building .for the centennial celebrations together with smaller lengths, were taken from the bush at Oruanui on three trucks last week. They will be transported l o Ngaruawahia, where the final work necessary for the completion of the canoes is being carried out by a party of Maori carvers under the direction of Princess Te Puea.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 13
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89CENTENNIAL CANOES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 13
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