'Moa hunters’ on visit
A group of latter-day moa hunters arrived in Christchurch yesterdav to prepare for the "hunt.” Armed not with spears or clubs but with cameras, the Japanese group, including a professor of botany. Dr Shoichi Hori, will make a film in which they will raise the possibility that a small species of moa, believed to be extinct, is alive in Fiordland. The film makers visited the Canterbury Museum and talked with the museum director (Dr R. S. Duff) before leaving to visit the National Museum in Wellington and to inspect a preserved moahunters’ shelter in the Takaka Valley.
Dr Duff said it was believed that one of the last surviving species of moa was killed in the Takaka Valley about the time of Captain Cook’s first visit to New Zealand.
The film makers will also visit the site of a former moa-hunters’ camp near Blenheim.
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Press, 16 February 1978, Page 1
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