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Wind-facetted Stones from the Marlborough Strand-Plain, New Zealand By L. C. King, Ph.D., Natal University College, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, April 22, 1936; received by the Editor, May 20, 1936; issued separately, December, 1936.] The Occurrence. Wind-facetted stones have previously been recorded from the Marlborough strand-plain north of the mouth of the Ure River,*King, L. C., Jour. Geol., vol. 44, pp. 201–213, 1936. where they are cut from irregularly shaped fragments of fine-grained limestone. From this point southwards they occur sporadically on the coast as far as least as the Deadman's Creek, but in general are poorly developed. Immediately south of the Clarence River, where the strand-plain assumes a greater width, they are again present in abundance with great variety both of form and composition. The material from which they are carved has evidently been derived Fig. 1.—Sketch-map of the Coastline of Eastern Marlborough.