1867: The Canterbury Museum
August 1, 2019
By AHNZ
The best friend New Zealand history ever had was a free market for moa findings. Why does this Lefty newspaper, our Green Party, and government a academic want to create a black market trade now by placing restrictions?
“Paleontologists are begging the New Zealand government to immediately halt the trade”“When moa bones are lost so too is the rich DNA and scientific data they hold, says paleontologist Richard Holdaway”- Moa for sale: trade in extinct birds’ bones threatens New Zealand’s history; The Guardian
No economist, Holdaway probably imagines a law forcing everyone to hand over their treasure to him or else Eugenie Sage will have the Police shoot at us! What will happen instead is that moa discovery will be forced underground into a criminalised black market. New information about the moa and other New Zealand palaeontological discovery will be made illicit least it incriminate.
Update: Here’s a clip from Cumberland on this subject…