GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
BY .MEMBERS OF RABBIT BOARD.
During the course id' bis report, on an inspection of the Forestry Department's afforestation area along the coast between Tangimoaua and Fo.vton at the .Manawatu Rabbit Board’s meeting on Thursday, the inspector (Air. D. R. Barron) said that he had been struck on making an inspection of the property at finding beds oi metal dotted right throughout it. Trustee* MeKelvie said that metal beds were to he found right throughout the sandy country along this coast. The metal was not river bed metal and was dull and soft.
The chairman (Mr. B. (4. Gower) .-aid that there was a metal bed a couple of hundred yards in extent and about half as wide nu Mr. S. ’Austin's property at Moutoa, hut this bed was about; four feet above the level of the adjoining country. Trustee MeKelvie said the sea had evidently been right over the area mentioned. Two miles inland from the sea on his property there had been located a few years ago the skeleton of a large wlutle quite intact.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4421, 1 March 1930, Page 2
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179GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4421, 1 March 1930, Page 2
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