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THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of
The
The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. The South Island was in the grip of moa mania, so it is unsurprising to learn that four snowed-in gold miners in Dunstan, central Otago, claimed to have had a fairly close encounter with the giant bird in 1867. One of them wrote anonymously and his piece was published in
The Press: “On Saturday, July 27, about four o’clock in the afternoon, whilst enjoying a pipe by the side of a small fire in our hut, with the door open, my attention was suddenly directed to a large animal on the opposite range,” he wrote.