10/02/2011 7:40:00
A bid of over $1 million has been registered on Trade Me for a vial of sand alleged to be from the famous Pink and White Terraces.
Sand alleged to be from the fabled Pink and White Terraces was sold on Trade Me.
The auction website is treating it as a joke, but it’s sparked a Te Arawa kaumatua to warn people not to exploit tribal history.
Two vials of the sand have been listed both after the announcement last week that scientists had discovered their bottom two tiers in Lake Rotomahana using underwater robots.
A Taranaki man who has one of the listings says he can have the sand authenticated. It’s fetched a bid of more than a million dollars.
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