MAORIS AND MOAS.
Sir,-In the article "How Man Came To New Zealand" (Listener, June 25) there is a reference to the Moa-hunters. It says "They killed off the moa and other birds." That was apparently some considerable time before A.D. 1350, I have a book written by an Army doctor stationed for eleven years: in New Zealand prior to 1859. This author, speaking of moas and referring to the species Notornis in particular, says: "One living specimen of this last species of moa, the link between a living and a dead race was caught alive by sealers in the year 1850;.and several others have been seen since then in unfrequented parts of the Middle Island near Dusky Bay." Do you think that might be true? (I quote from The Story of New Zealand Vol. 1., by Thompson).
L. FULLERTON
JOHNSON
(Cambridge)
(It is, we understand, the opinion of the authorities that Thompson’s report..was probably true. Dr. R. A. Falla, Director of the Dominion Museum, told us, when we read _ this letter to him, that he knew of no reason for doubting Thompson; he added that his predecessor, Dr. W. R.'B. Oliver, also took him seriously -Ed.) __ z
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 478, 20 August 1948, Page 5
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