During the D.S.I.R. expedition to White Island in January 1947, plant fossils were discovered in bedded tuffaceous sands on the south side of the island, about 17 chains north-west of Ohauora Point. On this and other coastal headlands a formation of well bedded tuffaceous sands, locally including water-worn pebbles, is exposed from high-tide level to a height of at least 15 ft; it apparently represents marine sediments now raised above sea level, either deposited during the Last Interglacial when sea level stood at a higher level than at present, or uplifted by tectonic movements. The discovery was mentioned by Hamilton (1959) in a botanical paper and is here drawn to the attention of geologists.