ARRIVAL OF MOA
It was probable that' the moa had reached New Zealand about 50,000,000 years ago, said Mr. Gilbert Archey, director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, in a lecture delivered under the auspices of the Auckland Institute. Mr. Archey said that the earliest fossil remains so far found dated back only about 5,000,000 years, but there were geological reasons for this. The probability was that the moa had been finally exterminated within 200 or 300 years after the arrival of the first Polynesians in New Zealand. Traditionally the earliest arrival was Kupe. in 950 A.D., but it was not unlikely that others had preceded him. The disappearance of the" moa should therefore be set back to seven or eight centuries.ago at the latest,"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 117, 20 May 1941, Page 6
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125ARRIVAL OF MOA Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 117, 20 May 1941, Page 6
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