A prospector, who has spent some time in the Huirau Ranges which divide the Hawke's Bay country from the Urewera, yesterday called at the ' office of the "Morning Post" and sbowed a hard piece of limestone rock in which is embedded a large shell The specimen was blasted from hard rock at a height of 2500 feet above ser. level, and must be many thousands of years old. Similar specimens have been found in many parts of New Zealand at.varying heights above sea level and provide direct evidence that the country has at diffent times risen and been submerged beneath the sea. Scientific invcstigation has shown that different elasses of shells found belong to widely separated periods and by this and other evidence, it has been possible to fix approximately the time which has elapsed since the various submergcnces.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 315, 31 August 1932, Page 6
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