Otakeho Cave Report

Production date
1981
1980-1989
 Description
In 1981, Roger Fyfe (then Deputy Director, Taranaki Museum), Roy Davis (Registrar, Taranaki Museum), and Kelvin Day (archaelogical student of Auckland University) conducted a survey of the Otakeho Cave on the Bennett Estate farm on Dingle Road, Otakeho.
The report describes a survey made by Roger Fyfe, Roy Davis and Kelvin Day of the Otakeho Cave on the Bennett Estate Farm in Dingle road, Otakeho, Feb 1981.
It is thought that the cave was dug by Mr Gallus Strovtz during WWII in preparation for a possible Japanese invasion. It contained several rooms and was well ventilated.

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Production date
1981
1980-1989
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report/(for Archives)
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Report. By Roger Fyfe, Roy Davis and Kelvin Day of the Otakeho Cave on the Bennett Estate Farm in Dingle road, Otakeho, Feb 1981. (2p.)

Accession number
ARC2001-244
Collection type
Archives

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