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WOOD EMBEDDED IN STONE (From Our Own Correspondent) \VHANGAREI, Today. Shown to a Sun man today was an object that indicated that in the dim and distant past this district experienued a. severe volcanic upheaval. The object. in question was a lartzo piece of stone picked up at Hardie Brothers’ quarry at Tikipunga. after blasting operations one day this week. The stone had embedded in it a. large piece of charcoal. At one time evidently a portion of a. branch or trunk of a. tree, it was emersed in molten stone, during some volcanic disturbance. and until the gelignite tore away part of the covering. remainPd for who knows how many centuries in its airtight and fiintlike casket. This serninn in stone is to he presented to the “'hangarei Museum.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 720, 20 July 1929, Page 5
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133RELIC OF PAST Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 720, 20 July 1929, Page 5
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