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A decade ago our biggest newspaper publisher made an ill-fated deal to send its almost all of its entire archive of photos offshore to be digitised. They never came back - and now their LA-based owner has put them on the market online, hoping a buyer will put them in public hands.

Opinion - The excavation of a 23-million-year-old whale fossil by a private collector on the West Coast of the South Island, has raised questions about the ethics of private fossil collecting and trading.

WARWICK SMITH/Stuff The adze head is in the safekeeping of Te Manawa, where it will remain unless a successful claim of ownership is made. Given it was found, late last year, near an old Rangitāne village, Maraetarata, the iwi could file such a claim. A representative from the iwi said it was aware of the find. Te Manawa heritage collections manager Cindy Lilburn said the adze, or toki, would have been fixed to a wooden handle, which hadn’t been found. Such tools were used to shape wood. ...