Familiar Unknown
Did you know that the muttonbirds captured on Whale Island by the Whakatane Maoris every year are not the true mutton-birds found on the islands, of the South. They belong to a species known to the Ancient Maoris as the Owi, or Oe.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 255, 8 January 1941, Page 5
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45Familiar Unknown Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 255, 8 January 1941, Page 5
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