278 ON THE GEOLOGICAL POSIIIOX OE THE " -WEKA-PASS STOIST]." 



blances can have no weight when opposed to palseontological 

 evidence, especially when the localities are 450 miles apart. And 

 if it has been proved that there is a break in the Weka-pass 

 district between the Cretaceous beds and those containing Tertiary 

 fossils, then the coal and green sandstones at Whangarei must be 

 referred by their fossils to a Tertiary and not to a Cretaceo-Tertiary 

 System. 



So long as these fossils are assumed 'co beloug to a Cretaceo- 

 Tertiary System, so long will Dr. Hector be right in saving that 

 "the classification of our Lower Tertiary and Upper Cretaceous 

 deposits is a problem of considerable difficulty." But let the line 

 of division be taken where the sections in the Weka-pass district 

 show it to exist, and I think the problem vrill be found capable of an 

 easy solution. 



