ADDITIONAL DETAILS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8002, 8 March 1910, Page 1

ADDITIONAL DETAILS.

AUCKLAND, March 7. In a further interview to-day, Mr Wragge said his discovery linked New Zealand to the dim aud distant past — long before the Maori, long before the Aryan, to the days of prehistoric- man, when scientists presumed man was a giant, perhaps eight feet high. " These rocks go back probably five hundred thousand years, and are most likely a great deal older. I consider they refer to sun worship. They are most probably connected with that continent that onco doubtless existed m the Western Pacific, called Lemuria, and, m order to emphasise- my discovery, I have provisionally called the spot Lomurion. They date back most likely to the time when, m vast agca past, owing to the secular shifts m the inclination of the earth's axis, prehistoric man was forced to migrate from the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, following a track from the north-west to the south-east, to the Southern Hemisprere, which had then m its turn become more genial." "These rocks which I have discovered are probably connected with the monoliths of Easter Island," remarked Mr Wragge. " I prefer not to say any more just at present as to the locality m which they are, except that I had to get a special sailing boat to reach it. It is absurd to tell me that they are the result of accident, or that they were geologically formed. As we see them there are, to my mind, undoubted marks showing that they are tiie work of man, and m some of them you qa.n plainly see the chisel marks."