Big Find of Moa Skeletons
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, CHRISTCHUBCH, Eeb. 3. Twenty-two complete ; moa 'skeletons have been ,dug from the swainjj^ . in Pyramid ,V alley, North Caiiterbury, in the last week and the temporary- -Bir ector of the Canterbury Museum, Dr. W. E^'B. Oliver, said today that a considerable field of.-.valuable ddposits ha,d yet to. be.exploited. Work has'stopped in the "meantime. Dr. E. C.' Murphy, . AmeiTcan ornithologist, has taken samples of the peat in which the skeletons have been remarkably pre-' served. He intends to have. tlie samples analysed in America.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 February 1948, Page 3
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