RANGITOTO ISLAND
ANIMAL LIFE DESCRIBED "Animal Life on Rangitoto" was the title of a lecture given by Miss L. B. Moore, a lecturer at Auckland University College, to members of tho University College Field Club last evening. The lecturer said that at a superficial glance the shores of Rangitoto. might seem wholly inhospitable, but the high tide zone yielded a richer list of molluscs than any other area in the harbour. Life between the tide marks was described in some detail and living examples of many of tho species were displayed. Behind tho mangroves and tho tussock grasses of the shore wero several colonies of black-backed gulls, whose young in heat of mid-summer hid under the jagged rocks, tho speaker continued. The dumping of tho city's refuse off the western shore probably had much to do with tho establishment of tho colonies. Native birds were few.
Miss Moore mentioned that Bangitoto was originally sold to "Queen Afictoria and her heirs for ever" for the sum of £ls. It was certain that the Maoris had not disturbed the island as much as Europeans had done in the 80 years since the sale.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21857, 20 July 1934, Page 14
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