SKELETONS IDENTIFIED
MAORIS’ CAVE SEPULCHRE. (By Wire —Special to News. Auckland, Last Night. It is now certain that the bones found by sailors from H.M.S. Dunedin in a eave on an islet’near Kawau .are the remnants of an ancient Maori burial ground. The bones were handed over to the police some time ago and submitted for examination to the police surgeon, Dr. C. H. Tewsley. It was considered possible that the skeletons were those of three men who were lost from the scow Kia Ora about 20 years ago. The us# of caves for the depositing of bodies was a universal custom among the natives of New Zealand. This point is interesting in view of the native objection to the cremation of Sir Maui Pomare. Not so long ago an important discover} was made in a burial cave near Whangarei, where elaborately carved Maori coffins were found.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1930, Page 9
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