SECRET CAVE
MAORI BURIAL PLACE DESECRATED. [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] WHANGAREI, Dec. 16. The discovery that the secret caves in which the dead of the Parawhau tribe of Maoris rested for centuries, had been entered and desecrated, has incensed the Chiefs. One guardian, to whom the location of the cave was revealed in accordance with native custom many years ago, investigated the rumours of the rifling of the caves and found the seal broken and skjulls lying scattered at the entrance. Further investigation to ascertain tho extent of the thefts is to be made. How would the Pakehas like it it Maoris stole the skull of a dead Prime Minister or Governor from a grave and exhibited it as a curio in their drawing room, queried a Maori guardian of the ancestral resting place, when speaking to a press reporter to-day.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1929, Page 5
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142SECRET CAVE Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1929, Page 5
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