PORT WAIKATO FIND
GEOGRAPHICAL IMPORTANCE Samples of Jurassic period flora, the oldest known in New Zealand, in fossilised form, have been found at the South Waikato Heads by Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, director of the Dominion Museum, and Professor J. A. Bartf Professor of geology at the Auckland University College. The collection is of considerable geographical importance. While engaged in tbe exploratory work which resulted in this discovery, Dr. Oliver and Professor Bartrum also found . e ,?' te an mission, but practically all that remained were the chimneys. Two large Moreton Bav ifig trees, which might have been i planted by the early missionaries, were noted to be growing there.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 284, 1 December 1941, Page 5
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