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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1092, 3 April 1911, Page 4

The Koman Catholics of Lower Hntt ■ have decided to build a convent in brick. ■ In order to raise, the neccssarv funds a • bazaar will bo organised to take place in November next. [ Recently Mr. George Smart, while goins through the bush on his section in the Jviritchere, came suddenly on what ho throught to be a strangely-shaped log of wood lying across the path. He nivo-li-gated the fern-covered mass and found is to be, to his astonishment, Ihe hull of a nearly-luiislied Maori canoe, about fortv led long, burned out of a sinjlo giant tree. Kerns', mosses, humus, and (lie accumulations of generaliuns of forest rubbish wore cbnned away with the slasher* an da canoe of lotara, perfect, with tho exception of a little rol <;n the outside, lay revealed. The nistker.s of (his anciunl dug-out must have liieu disturbed in their work—for they left it unfinished ' —probably by some niarantliiig war jmrlv from down the coast—Taraniiki may be. That tho remains are very ohl is easily proven by the charred appearance nf the inside of the canon, which, if appearances tell Iruly, was burned and dubbed into fhape by those quaint lillle Maori adzes which we pick up so often. The nearest boat-water is the sea— a mile distant—and the old workers of wood and stono would have had to negotiate a high ridge before reaching their destination—the eea.—Te Kuiti ' Chronicle,"-