WHALERS' TRY-POTS
Suggestion that Their Historr be Recorded The old-time whaTers' try-pots near Cape Kidnappers, mention of whicli was made in the Herald-Tribune on Saturday, are not apparently a new discovery, as their ©xistence has heen known by quite a icyf of the olde* residents. From inquiries .which havo been made it is. learned that the pots once belonged. to a whaler named Willaim Morris who operated whaling stations o® several parts of the Hawke's Bay coast — notably, near Tongoio and at Rongai- - ika, the place on the Waimarama side of Cape Kidnappers where the pots aro at present. During recent times tho pots. have become almost com-pletely covered with sand by the action of wind and sea, and it was lately that they were uncovered again hy two Hastings residents . The exact history of the whaling station Js a matter upon which local opinion differs, and Mr. H. E. Phillips, of Havelock North, in a letter to the editor, makes the suggestion that in view of the fact that there are in the district many prominent Maoris who are descendants of the whaiere, it would! be an opportune time for one of these to record and deposit the history with th© Hawke's Bay Historical Society.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 69, 14 December 1937, Page 6
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206WHALERS' TRY-POTS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 69, 14 December 1937, Page 6
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