ANCESTRAL CAVE
CONCERN OF MAORIS COUNCIL /ROAD PROJECT After a good deal of discussion with borough representatives, the Whakatane natives have agreed -to allow the Borough Council to widen the present road to the Heads Centennial Park by 6ft., a provision being that the toe of the cliff «t the entrance to the Cave of Muriwai shall, not be touched in the process. The road is narrow at this point, but the natives said that the cave has ramifications: which are not generally known, and, on Sir Apirana Ngata’s advice, they were opposed to any interference with it by blasting in the vicinity.
Muriwai, a venerated ancestress of the Ngati Awa tribe of Whakatane, was a sister of Tor.on, the captain of Matatua canoe, which landed at Whakatane, and it is said that she lived in this cave, which now bears her name.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19990, 15 July 1939, Page 10
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143ANCESTRAL CAVE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19990, 15 July 1939, Page 10
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