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Friday, August 17, 2001

Transit To Fund Historic Places In Hobsonville
Transit will demolish the house under close supervision by an archaeologist and will attempt to remove a segment of the building for display in a museum, probably in Hobsonville, at a cost of $100,000.

Waikanae Burial Site Prosecution
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust commences today its court action against an engineering and a contracting company for alleged unlawful damage to an archaeological site in Waikanae.

Bottle Digging Convictions
Wilson and Westlake pleaded guilty to a charge against section 99 of the Historic Places Act that on the 23rd April this year they damaged the archaeological site of Marsland Hill in New Plymouth. The police apprehended Mr Wilson who had been digging by torchlight with a large amount of excavation equipment and provisions that had been brought there for the purpose of digging up and removing historic artefacts.

Friday, August 03, 2001

Floodbank site yields treasure
Bones, bottles or even skeletons could among the discoveries of archaeologist Peter Petchey, who is digging on the old Bendigo Hotel and Molyneux Motors site in Alexandra.

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Friday, August 17, 2001

Transit To Fund Historic Places In Hobsonville Transit will demolish the house under close supervision by an archaeologist and will attempt to remove a segment of the building for display in a museum, probably in Hobsonville, at a cost of $100,000.

Waikanae Burial Site Prosecution The New Zealand Historic Places Trust commences today its court action against an engineering and a contracting company for alleged unlawful damage to an archaeological site in Waikanae.

Friday, August 03, 2001

Floodbank site yields treasure Bones, bottles or even skeletons could among the discoveries of archaeologist Peter Petchey, who is digging on the old Bendigo Hotel and Molyneux Motors site in Alexandra.

Transit To Fund Historic Places In Hobsonville
Transit will demolish the house under close supervision by an archaeologist and will attempt to remove a segment of the building for display in a museum, probably in Hobsonville, at a cost of $100,000.

Waikanae Burial Site Prosecution
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust commences today its court action against an engineering and a contracting company for alleged unlawful damage to an archaeological site in Waikanae.

Floodbank site yields treasure
Bones, bottles or even skeletons could among the discoveries of archaeologist Peter Petchey, who is digging on the old Bendigo Hotel and Molyneux Motors site in Alexandra.