A member of the Ngati Otautahi Club on a mussel-gathering expedition at Akaroa recently arrived at the mussel gounds with only one pair of boots, and found that he would be forced to ruin his boots or go barefoot on the sharp and uncomfortable rocks. Fortunately, however, among the Maori women at the settlement there was one who had not lost the art of her ancestors of plaiting sandals, the Maori paraerae. Within half an hour she had made the fisherman a stout and comfortable pair of green flax sandals, closelj’ plaited on the soles and provided with an adequate heel-piece and cross-pieces for the toes. The sandals were worn on the rocks all the weekend and were still in excellent order when the expedition was over.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1940, Page 6
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