DOMINION AND THE MOON
“A NARROW ESCAPE.” LONDON. March 19. How New Zealand just missed being a portion of the moon was told by Professor Pickering in a lecture before the Royal Colonial Institute. Professor Pickering said that -when the moon’s birth occurred the earth was already solid. The moon tore itself away from the Pacific and the northern portion of New Zealand was the last point of contact Three-quarters of the earth’s surface, 3S miles deep, was carried away in a trailing mass of ruin. New Zealand was just saved. But it would not be justifiable to assume that the Man in the Moon is a Maori.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19134, 31 March 1924, Page 5
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108DOMINION AND THE MOON Otago Daily Times, Issue 19134, 31 March 1924, Page 5
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