Maori Relics Discovered
While strolling along thie beach at the Heads on Sunday ? Mr Charles Brown } of White Pine Bush discovered quite a number of well-foriried bearing signs of use by the Maoris as weapons } and. tools for fashioning utensils etc. Some of the flints bore obviously made to fit the. fingers of the users. Mr Brown is interested in the and intends following it up. Shooting Teams Compete On a combined Rotorpa and Wliakatane Air Traning Corjpsshooting team travelled to to compete against one drawn fr&m the Opotiki Squadron. Excellent conditions prevailed, and contests were carried out with .22 and bore rifles on the thirty yard range..; Grouping t application and rapiit tests were held and the final result. 9 ' showed Opotiki to be the winners by the very narrow margin of a bare four points. It is hoped to hold! further competitions in the: future.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 09, Issue 21, 6 November 1945, Page 5
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147Maori Relics Discovered Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 09, Issue 21, 6 November 1945, Page 5
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