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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 71, 16 December 1933, Page 23

“In nine years this is the first case I have seen of that kind,” said his Honour Mr. Justice Ostler in the Christchurch' Supreme Court when making a decree absolute in a divorce case, and ordering the custody of an adopted child. Mr. F. IV. Cowlishaw, who appeared for petitioner, a woman, said that he, too, had never come across such a case, but Mr. Justice Adams had made an interim order for custody when the case was first brought forward.

Moa bones have recently been discovered in a cave in the Te Kuiti district by Mr. F. C. Mappin, of Auckland, who at the time was engaged on an expedition with Mr. Gilbert Archey, director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. The remains included a practically complete skeleton of an intermedi-ate-sized moa. This has been brought to Auckland, and will be set up in the Museum. Its value lies in its comparative completeness. It is seldom that almost complete skeletons are found, but often discoveries of mixed bones of different species are made. Two weeks ago Mr. .Archey found moa bones in a limestone cave in the Nelson district, including a nearly perfect skeleton. It was of a moa of a smaller type, but was not in such good condition as the Te Kuiti specimen. The bones from Nelson have also been taken to Auckland, and, with the Te Kuiti find, will make a notable addition to the Museum collection.