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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 54, 5 February 1885, Page 4

A curious little bit of evidence, says the Collingwood correspondent of the Colonist, with regard to the age that a kaka lives or may live has turned up here. Some boys were snaring kakas, among those they caught was one having a bone ring on its left leg, on which were just legible the figures "57." They were much rubbed, and were nearly faded away altogether. This became talked about m the neighbourhood, and it came to the ears of an old settler m the district, who remembered having caught one of those birds m 1857, and turning him adrift with a ring on his leg with the year on it The old bird certainly had a very venerable appearance, but no one would have taken him to be at least twenty-seven years of age, unless perhaps he appeared on the table, when no doubt his sinews would have pronounced him to be a chicken. I may add that the place where the kaka was caught was within two miles of where it was turned out m 1857.