MOA BONES FOUND AT WANGANUI
SKELETONS CRUMBLE (From Our Own Correspondent.) WANGANUI, To-day. Moa bones have never been found in large -quantities in the Wanganui district, and in a few isolated places where they have been picked up have mostly been in the vicinity of swamps and more particularly in the Wangaehu district. The largest deposit was discovered in one spot at Makirikiri some years ago, where the bones were all in a heap showing that the birds must have clustered together for shelter, presumably from a fire while being hunted A few days ago a settler of Marybank came across a skeleton of a large moa and a smaller one that had been uncovered in sand. Unfortunately as soon as an attempt was made to remove the bones they crumbled to dust, and thus two fine specimens were lost to the museum. They were doubtless those of a mother bird and her young.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 10
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154MOA BONES FOUND AT WANGANUI Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 10
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