NORTH ISLAND'S AGE
SHELL FRORfl TAIHAPE HILL GIVES INDICATIOM OF ANTIQUITY IIow long ago is it since New Zeaiand emerged from the ocean? This question arises from time to time when someone discovers a marino deposit of some kind or other ernoie from the sea in the elevated interior of the country says the. Ho-
minioa. A Taihape correspondent forwards to the Dominion a perfect specimen of which was dug out of a hillside on a farm 15 nxiles from Taihape. The shell, about 4ins from the hinge ro the top, is beautifully fluted, with -.vith four undulating ridges occurring in the corrugations all terminating in the hinge. There is nothing remarlcable about rhe shell, perhaps, except its perfect confirmatlon and its age,- which must be extreme. On oue occc.sion an eminent geolo1 gist of Ha ward Univei'sity came to the cciiciusion that Central Otago 1 was one of the oldest pieces of land . on the face of the earth. That auth1 ority also stated that Switzerland was a mere bantling in age eompared with Central Otago. He was not so positive, however, about the age of the North Island. 1
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 September 1932, Page 6
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