ANCIENT RUINS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 811, 8 March 1910, Page 3

ANCIENT RUINS.

MR. WRAGGE MAKES A DISCOVERY.

Auckland, March 7

Mr Clement Wragge, who has been lecturing and doing some experimenting work in the Far North, claims to have discovered in the neighbourhood of the Bay of Islands, “the remains of an ancient city or temple that probably dates back to the time of the sun worshippers.” He says: “ The huge blocks of stone, some nearly 15ft long, were evidently hewn by pre-historic man. Some have cups or holes scooped out on the face, which are evidently written records of immense antiquity, and others are marked with loug and short strokes, one being an ansated cross.” Mr Wragge has taken a series of photos of this weird place, which is probably unique in New Zealand, probably, he says, dating back to the Megalithic period of ancient man, when he was forced by change of climate to migrate Irom the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere. New Plymouth, March 7.

Regarding Mr Wragge’s discovery in the Bay of Islands, Mr Percy Smith says that there are stone between Whangaroa and the Bay of Islands regarding which the natives have traditions dating to the time of Captain Cook. A year or two ago the Government Geologist had them examined, and found them to be natural decayed basaltic columns. Possibly these are what Mr Wragge has found.