An old Whare.
Mr Henry who watches over Ees^lution L>laod relates :— •* On an island in Sealer's Cove on-Anch'>r Island — which Captain Cook christened Luncheon Cove -he found two little Maori huts still standing. " one of them with a tree growing out of its ridge and the roots down along its roof like raf;er3.' This hut was built and floored with fern tree stem*, find be (Mr Henry) estimated that it is eighty or a bnmired years old. Soalers' Cove itself wa9 the site of an old Maori village, and subsequently the resort of whalers and sealers. Its selection did its founders credit, for it is sunny and sheltered, closa to the best fishing ground and the list; haunts of the seal, and— wonderful to relate of any place in the Sonnda —is free fromsandfliee. A trace of Captain Cook's visit tp these parts is visible at Pickeregill Harbour, where the clearing his woodcutters made is still to be distinguished.
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Manawatu Herald, 5 August 1899, Page 3
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159An old Whare. Manawatu Herald, 5 August 1899, Page 3
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