AN INTERESTING FIND.
MOA’S SKELETON DISCOVERED. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 12. An interesting find urns made a few t i a vs a"o by Mr. T. E. Hughes, of WoodhUl, Kaipnra. While.! he was walking over the sandhills a lew miles below Holensvillo he. d.scoverccUthe perfect skeleton of a moa The skeleton had evidently been buried in th© eonJ for centuries ,and tho I€CC *\ winds from the north had removed Die covering sand, and exposed the bones When discovered, it was perS but oil attempting to remove it, feet, mz on i bones crumbled most oi *n° bones of the legs and part of lie. This discovery « l J no this district. • ; ' - :
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2189, 13 May 1908, Page 3
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112AN INTERESTING FIND. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2189, 13 May 1908, Page 3
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