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IMPORTANT QUARRY FIND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrtgn* Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 4. 10.45 a.m.) BRISBANE, May 4. The Governn cut geologist states that fossil insert remains were found in a quarry at Ipswich. There was a complete chain of cockroaches from carboniferous times to the present day. a period of four million years. This ■quarry yielded 120 new speciies of insect remains, and doubtless others will be unearthed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17032, 4 May 1923, Page 7
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