! While excavating in connection with the read construction work on Upper -;T)pver road, Oka to,' a relief Worker uaearthed a lidlUsovereign dated 1700. ■As there that vicinity a track gr&atily used, I>y the Maoris prior to a(ird Huffing, the Maori War,. it is probable (says the “Taranaki Daily News”) that ithe. half-sovereign, wag plunder from oho of tlie wrecked vessels along ..the coast, dropped-by a Maoti while trekking inland. The steamer. Waitemata,. which was ‘ formerly owned by the Union Company and wa;.si iacquired ,by a Japanese buyer after she bad been sold to a. Melbourne firm last November, sailed for Japan last week. A Japanese crew arrived' for the vessel, which is' now known ate the Waitemata Mam, by the Ryoka. Maru, Which, mlso brought- coal and stores from Japan for the Waitematak voyage.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1933, Page 6
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