RAILWAY DEVIATION
BENEFIT TO MUSEUM
(Special to the "Evening Post.") WANGANUI, July 28,
The railway deviation work between Okoia and Turakina is employing men. It is estimated that it will be another year before It is finished. At present,; the main work is in making a tunnel 104 chains long through the Turakina Hill. Two new bridges will be required, one over the Turakina and one over the Wangaehu. Four miles will, be saved between Wanganui and Marton, and steep grades, in some places 1 in 35, will be eliminated. . :
A layer of sea-shells cmany of them similar to those found/on the Castle--cliff beach today) about; 3ft thick and extending fox- more than 400 yards, aroused much interest among the tun-1 nellers; and many fine specimens were secured aiuL brought into the Alexander, Museum. An almost perfect specimen of Glycymeris laticostata was stated by Mr. James Grant, 8.A., director of the museum, to be a unique find, but perhaps the most notable object was the first caudal vertebra of a large dolphin. Beside shells, several pieces of moa bone were discovered. These specimens were mostly at a depth of about 500 ft
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1939, Page 11
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