MOA BONE DEPOSIT
GOVERNMENT GRANT TRUSTEES’ APPRECIATION The Government’s action of providing a grant of £l2OO to enable the work of recovering moa bones to be continued during the past summer season was the subject of favourable comment at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Museum Board ol Trustees. With the approach of the winter the work has been discontinued and the plant is to be removed. Thu following motion was passed:
“The trustees of the Wanganui Public Museum wish to place on record their sincere appreciation of the Government’s action in allocating a grant, of £l2o') for exploration of the wonderful deposit of moa bones situated on Mr J. A. Todd’s property near Upokongaro, which has enabled a vast quantity of bones to be made available for scientific research. This will result in more light being thrown upor the distribution of, and classification of, New Zealand’s great, fam’ ily of ••
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 87, 13 April 1938, Page 9
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150MOA BONE DEPOSIT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 87, 13 April 1938, Page 9
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