PREHISTORIC AGE.
NEW ZEALAND SUBMERGED. FURTHER EVIDENCE FOUND. From time to time evidence of the age when New Zealand was suinbergc-d beneath the ocean comes to light, and the Ilokonui Hills, a veritable geologist’s paradise, have provided a fair quota of interesting specimens of fossilised remains. A further link with the prehistoric age is the discovery by workmen employed on the Southland County Council’s new road contract at Whisky Creek of numerous shells and other examples of the work of the sea. In several places a type of blue sandstone thickly embedded with large and small shells in a remarkable state of preservation has been discovered at a depth of a few feet.
Excavation work has further revealed lumps of conglomerate with plain imprints of the outside of shells and nieces of broken shell cemented among the small stones.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20422, 26 September 1938, Page 3
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