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Moa-bone find on Coast

■ j Greymouth reporter J Moa bones have been) (found in an old limestone! - fault by a Greymouth , couple, Mr and Mrs P. /Neame, while searching for) '(bottles at old mining-camp 1 sites at Marsden, about Bkm) (east of Greymouth. I Mr Neame recovered the) I bones, which were later! I identified by Mr R. Scarlett,) | of the Canterbury Museum,! las the tibia bone and pelvis of a bush moa, the smallest of the species. Further exploration recovered the leg bones of a bigger species of moa, which I may have stood about 4m jhigh. These will also be sent to the Canterbury Museum for positive identification. Mr Neame now plans to [excavate the whole site. He believes there are • [bones of about five moas in [the fault, an opening in the [ground about 6m deep. He [says that other bones to be | positively identified belong to birds such as the native [coot, an extinct bird resembling a pukeko, the kakapo, the kiwi, and the weka.

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Press, 2 December 1978, Page 2

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Moa-bone find on Coast Press, 2 December 1978, Page 2

Moa-bone find on Coast Press, 2 December 1978, Page 2