SHARK’S TOOTH
DISCOVERY AT 1300 FEET
TE AWAMUTU, May 13
The early Maori, in naming the district at the top of the range dividing the Waip.x Valley from the Kawhia sea coast To Ran-n-moa, must have had seine knowledge of the moa existing there, hut they eould hardly have also had the knowledge that many ages ago the area was ranged by denizens of the sea. Evidence- of this fact was found by a, party of workmen engaged m road improvement near the top of.the hill, at an altitude of 131:0ft, While blasting some hard rock oh the road-, side a piece flaked off,and deeply atnl r clearly impressed in the stone waC what has been since identified as 'a shark’s tooth. The piece of rock canf|| into-the possession of CMr TI. Meredith, who forwarded it to the curator of the Auckland Museum.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1933, Page 6
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143SHARK’S TOOTH Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1933, Page 6
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