DOMINION AND THE MOON
“A NARROW ESCAPE.LONDON, .Match PE How New /ealand in-l mi-.sed being n portion of the mpon w.t- told •“> Prolessor Pickering in a lecture ' elore the Rov.il Colonial Institute. Professor Pickering said that when the moon's birth occurred the earth was already solid. The moon tore itself away from the Pacific and the northern portion of New Zealand was t,| u » lasi point of contact. 11l roe-quar-ters ot the earth's surface. 35 miledeep. was carried away tn a trailing mass of ruin. New Zealand was just saved. But it, would not be justiiiable to assume that the Man in the Moon is a Maori.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1924, Page 3
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