DISCOVERY OF MOA BONES.
(BY TELEO2APH—PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Christohuroh, August 19. While workmen were engaged yesterday in excavating on the Cashmere Hills for the 'city. ruse-voir, they unearthed a number of moa bones. The bones apparently belonged to a small specimen of the moa. They were found about 15 feet below tho surface silt, and had been flattened to some extent by the pressure of the earth above. Tho bones havo.been secured by the Chmtchurch Museum curator.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 281, 20 August 1908, Page 3
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76DISCOVERY OF MOA BONES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 281, 20 August 1908, Page 3
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