Members of the Whangarei Chamber of Commerce party which visited the Whau Vallely coal mine recently were immensely interested (reports the Northern Advocate) in the discovery of a block of ap patently petrified or silicified wood. It was similar to a block cut out of a tapering tree trunk, and must be many thousands of years old. It was found by the miners embedded in a coal seam. This block is being forwarded to Whangarei and will be offered to the Town Hall Museum.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4030, 9 June 1931, Page 34
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