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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 279, 14 March 1929, Page 2

Mrs. E. L. Dobbie, of Auckland, sends to the Dominion a curious story of a "snoring bird.” When a child living with her parents on the edge of the bush, she was sent to fetch a two-foot rule for her father from an extension almost in the bush. Suddenly she heard an uncanny, rattling snore from the darkness of the bush, and rushed off terrified to the security of human beings and lamplight. Her father could not explain the sound, nor could a neighbour who was well versed in the habits of animals and birds. Many years later this lady, at the invitation of the daughter of the stationmaster at Lower Hut, went to see their pet kiwi. Suddenly it thrust its long bill to the hilt in the earth and, to her astonishment, made the identical noise she had heard in the bush twelve years before. She had discovered the identity of her “ snoring bird.”