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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1953Vol. XXIV, No. 2

Makatea Man?

p. 53 · Read in the full issue

IT was reported in Australian newspapers recently that an thropologists (no names men tioned) in Tahiti believed that what might be the remains of two of the world’s oldest ape-men had been found on Makatea phosphate island.

It is thought that the bones be long to a “superior type of ape” and precede Peking Man. The remains are on their way to a Paris museum and no doubt experts there will, in due course, make a pro nouncement.

An aircraft carrying 45 Fiji troops from Malaya called at Towns ville, Qld., on August 22.