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A unidentified woman interviews Dr. Robert Falla of the Dominion Museum who discusses what is known of the moa and the possibility of any surviving. He believes a small forest moa was the kind possibly seen by Alice McKenzie. [see ID246952]
Dr. Geoffrey Orbell of Southland says he believes Mrs. McKenzie's story of seeing a moa in 1881 and mentions Sir George Grey's description of recent moa sightings in Fiordland in the 1860s. The story of Jules Berg who died in Fiordland in 1954 and swore he saw a four- foot moa there whilst he was with Arawata Bill near Lake Widgeon.
Jack Squires describes the dense bush around Fiordland and hearing strange sounds, but Dr. Robert Falla of the Dominion Museum says the sounds mean little. The moa made a rattling sound (like the fireman bird). Dr. Falla thinks there is a faint hope of finding a small live moa.