MOA SKELETON
A VALUABLE FIND. (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON N„ July 21. The Government electrical engineer and an acclimatisation society 's ranger I report th<* discovery of a magnificent | moa skeleton at Waikaremoana. I 'lhev were exploring a route for high I tension wires last week and camp upon I a ravine into which access could only' be gained by ropes. In a dry cave I which had been blocked by a huge ' boulder the explorers found a splen- ' didiy preserved skeleton, which, when assembled, will show the bird’s height to have been 12 feet 9 inches. The head alone has decayed. The discoverers surrounded the announcement of the find with much humorous detail, attaching a pig’s skull in place of the missing head, thereby mystifying amateur ornithologists. This valuable and .interesting specimen has now been transported to Wairoa. .
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 5
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139MOA SKELETON Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 5
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