BURIED CANOE FOUND
SETTLER’S DISCOVERY AT MOERA FORGOTTEN BY MAORIS Press Association TV ELLINGTON, Today. F ,F e , L ‘ ent L y a settler on the Moera. garden Utt Valley ’ digging in his gaiden, came upon the hull of an old below th UOe Y the depth of six feet fio fL* th ? surface ’ proved to be 60 feet long and six feet wide but had never been finished. The authorities of the Dominion Museum have been negotiating for its Tester’ b f ° U a more complete Investigation being made, the relic was discovered to be in such a decayed moval U that 14 was not worth reInteresting speculations have came n to S he°i h f r SUCh a lar S e canoe came to be left on what is now part of the Moera Settlement. None of he Hutt eU V n y Ma ° ri inhabitants ot tne Hutt \ alley can remember a canoe being buried there, nor Ley shed any light on the mystery
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 10
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