THE FINDING OF GREENSTONE
According to Ndtivo tradition) tho first to discover gftsercsimie. on theWest Coast was a chief named Ngahure. This rliiof, it is said, was drivoii from, H»\v:ut{i tliwagh tho jeawu~y of a WiHuftii. and look up his abotii* at AraImra. When l!icn> ho fern mi a Itiwk of Rreenstone, and took it bftek wills Win to Hnivniki, where- sorfle e-f his yisoplo made axes of the gwenstono, nml constrijcted two mi-sops, To Aroxva and Tainvii, with which these peopleen mo to New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2159, 27 May 1914, Page 17
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86THE FINDING OF GREENSTONE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2159, 27 May 1914, Page 17
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