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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17502, 8 September 1928, Page 16 (Supplement)

Some remarkably dizzy heights of imagination were reached by certain of the school children who competed in the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society’s essay competition on native bird life. Two of the quaintest efforts are as follows: —(i) “To-day, in the bush, the kca flies down, picks up a whole sheep, and takes it hack to its nest to feed its young. . . . Suddenly there is a terrible crashing in the bush, and what is it? It is but a moa in hot pursuit of a fantail!” (2) "The moa is an extinct bird which lived in caves and ate air. It always kept two tuatara lizards at the cavemouth to guard it.”