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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17750, 30 April 1923, Page 6

Mr.W. T. Williams, of Tc Aute, Hawke's Bav, has made a donation, of £JOO to assist the work of the Church of England in'this district ('states the "Eotorna Chronicle"), £2OO of this sum to be devoted towards the erection of a church at Xgongotaha, and £2OO towards building the proposed church at Whakarewarewa. At both places the residents have raised locally a siim of atytft . £ICO towards the cost of the buildings. Accepted ideas of the antiquity of man on the American continent have been overthrown by Dr. J. G. Wolf's tliscoverv in Patagonia, announced from Buenos Aires, of a fossilised human skull of the Tertiary period. According to Dt. Franz Boas, the anthronologjist of Columbia University, the skull, if correctlv described, must be 500,000 years older than the skull of the erect man-ape known as Pithecanthromis erectus. unearthed 29 vears ae;o in .Tn.va, and itself estimated to be 500,000 years old.. Tt must have be-Inuo-ed to a man living in the davs when the present Polar ren-ions were tropical or semi-tropir-al, and bis: monsters and reptiles held sway there.