Wares so decorated were still cheap-a twelve-piece tea set with decoration to order and with a tray bearing an inscription commemorating the visit of the Sutton party was ready in two days at a price of two shillings. Gold ornament was freely used.When a kiln isin use for a long time broken seggars and pottery so clutter up the place that a new site is chosen in preference to clearing away the rubble.That is why abandoned kiln sites are to be found in and near scores of villages of a pottery making centre, and Sutton tells us that the pre-war road building programme in Tehua district revealed hundreds of these. He particularly mentions one with a tree growing over it having a trunk 14 ft.in circumference, and the 1960 investigators made a similar discovery.