HUMAN BONES FOUND.
EIGHT SKULLS UNEARTHED. MOUND AT NGARUAWAHIA. ■ At present the Ngaruawahia .Domain Board has a couple of men engaged. 4n cleaning up. the. ground round the monument to king Potata.u, standing in the Otagon. They-are peeling off the turf on the sloping sides of the mound and levelling the slope ?o that it may be mown by a horse mower. ’• .
■On Thursday, while the men were engaged in their work they unearthed nd less than eight skulls- These were Maori remains, and had evidently been placed in the mound by the ■Maoris when it was first built up. The natives, hearing of' the find, came along and claimed the skulls, which were carried away ji) kitsThey will probably be interred in the native cemetery .at Taupiri. .
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4999, 12 July 1926, Page 2
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128HUMAN BONES FOUND. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4999, 12 July 1926, Page 2
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