TRIBUTE TO KUPE
Huge Stone At Opononi
■ “The Press” Special Service I AUCKLAND, Jan. 12. j Standing on a hill overlooking the tiny Maori settlement of Pakanae, one mile from Opononi, is a huge, finger-shaped stone erected as I a memorial to the Polynesian | explorer Kupe. j The stone, which is reputed Ito have been the ballast in ! Kupe’s canoe when he landed in Hokianga Harbour in 950, is unknown to most people. Mr N. Hemara, one of the oldest residents in the settlement, said that the stone had been erected as a monument to Kupe ‘himself.
“When we used to-be able to laj' the stone on the ground and strike it, it made a noise like singing,” he said. Set in concrete, the stone rises six feet from the ground. It was raised about seven years ago. The idea came from seven elders of the Ngapuhi tribe who lived in Pakanae. An inscription on the plaque reads in Maori: “For remembrance of Kupe in the future. He came in AD 950. This memorial will stand during the day and the night.”
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 5
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182TRIBUTE TO KUPE Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 5
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