BONES OF MOA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1937, Page 9

BONES OF MOA.

. FINDS ON : EfrST; COAST. ' ; EFFORT TO/DETERMTNE *AGE. - .(By/Telegraph;— ; Own . Correspondent.) ■■..■ NAPIER, this day. ■..-.'ln': consequence.of the' publicity,giveii ■to.'liis /discovery "of; a pieceyof .fossilised ; moa's ;icg, Dr. ;K.: ; ; E.'; Crompton.'■.:' was invited this, week to visit, a district near .^rjaiJKevirkc^i.p^'examine a- : '])ie'ce.' of moa' .■bone.'. \v!iicli was" found' in that locality several years ago, and which: hiis'; since been .'kept "by: the - mail who': unearthed ■'•■"■'■■ Dr. Crompton returned to-day from the locality,. which is about 35 miles in; from the coast, and about], .1100 feet above . sea . level. , ■The specimen ' found there has been in the possession of a resident of Nqrscwpod, who unearthed it, for nearly rime years, and its possible value was not realised'until the recent announcement of Dr. Crompton's own discovery of another piece of bone on the coastline near.Napier.;. ....' ■ Dr. Crompton will take it, together with his own find, to the science congress in Auckland next week,- as well : as. several samples of fossilised sea shell 'found on the same spot, from which he hopes .it will be possible to determine the'age of the moa bone. i < ■ -