No Moa no More
DE: H. SKINNER, in his talk from 4YA, "The Maoré in Otago," spoke not only of the pre-European Maaoris, but of the pre-European birds and trees of Otago, painting a picture of Dunedin hills covered wih subtropical -rainforest alive with robins, fantails, riflemen, bell-birds-a picture which might well cause Dunedin citizens to look askance at the tussocky hills where once stood white pine, rimu, and matai, and to mourn sadly for the thick plant-carpet which once clothed the nakedness of burnt-out Central Otago, haunt of the vanished moa and takahe. There were few Maoris here in olden days, but there are fewer now. They came for the moa-hunting, and bartered moa flesh for the North Island articles such as huia feathers, flax, and so 9n. The only bad mark against them seems to have been the killing out of the moa, which we Dunedinites may accept as a mixed blessing; while I was delighted to find a pair of wood-pigeons frequenting a tree in my own back yard recently. I doubt if I could find it in my heart to welcome the same attentions from a couple of moas.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 15
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193No Moa no More New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 15
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