W HALE STRANDED NEAR LAKE FORSYTH.
I was a" windfall, or, more ac- ■~& seafaH, awaiting a Little »6ri Vanned Kini, bettor known ftikaJacbj* l when he strolled TTito "prize "ho" found was a ale, ,the first that (has ..come here .within the-recollection or it'inhatutan,t,,/- Iho eeo-mon-a. ttonster. indeed*. Its length' ''Announced -by the Maoris u»s hut it was generally thought ? figure-WouUl stand a little ilia* and eventually, aocmate aents showed -that the whale jet 6.inches in length. How or one ashore is a mystery .'lt was ch alivo when it landed, and Lttordry beach until Friday i^dfed.;' Various portions, of its ''showed extensive signs of proving tha.t- it had had a passage" -before coming up on ty Mile Beach, about two miles the mouth of Lake Forsyth, nspecting it with a due amount ; the-Maoris refrained from it'txatil itrdied, abdut noon on They then, quickly removed ber,'whfeh has, since been reft a woll-known Chrfstcharcli id soap firm, arid they also suei "salvaging 1 ' the whalebone, iris "will' find' themselves* conin pocket fiom their unusual
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17118, 13 April 1921, Page 7
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173WHALE STRANDED NEAR LAKE FORSYTH. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17118, 13 April 1921, Page 7
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