A BIG KITCHEN MIDDEN.
Notwithstanding the vigilance of Inspectors of Nuisances, andtW.gtjvance of ideas on the subject of cleanliness, there are still some, choice kitchen middens to be seen in town ;and country in various parts of the Colony. None.. would have thought, however, that’ T there is or ever has existed in Ne>v :■ Zealand-a, gigantic kitchen midden 2Q. miles long, '3OO or 400 yards wide, ktuf an unknown number of feet deep. In discussing the probable antiquity of man iu New Zealand at the phicivl Institute last night Dr Von Ha .at mentioned .that a ■ midden - of -thjnse dimensions existed, and that some of these days he intended *to solve.,th> -, problem, or at all events endeavpqr . to solve it, by digging int»% .th)3^. : midden, and finding how long. p it '; would take a given number of people to; eat the fish that had once hi eu con--taiued in the shells. Some one imbued with a thirst for knowledge mildly enqtiived the locality of the former feasjklnS I r l ace > whereupon the’. Doctor became • reticent, merely saying that in good time all that was now concealed would ’ be disclosed;,, In-the, meantime wo must possess our souls in patience, and await the result of. the' investigations ~ into the relics of this ancient clambake, t
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Kumara Times, Issue 508, 14 May 1878, Page 2
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214A BIG KITCHEN MIDDEN. Kumara Times, Issue 508, 14 May 1878, Page 2
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