TUATARA LIZARD
Request For Tokyo
(N.Z. Press Association) NAPIER, February 4. A formal request from Japan to the New Zealand Government is to be made for the purchase or presentation of a tuatara lizard for display in the Japanese reptile exhibition to be held in Tokyo next summer, according to a statement in Napier today by the curator of the Japanese snake centre, Mr Takaji Matusi. Mr Matsui is on the threeweek visit to New Zealand to study bird and reptile life under the sponsorship of the
Japanese Government He is accompanied by an official photographer of the Mainichi newspapers, Mr Tokimitsu Iwago. Mr Mitsui said that, irrespective of the reptile exhibition, he wanted a tuatara for purposes of study in the snake centre, Tokyo, one of ■ the largest in the world. “The specimen of tuatara • I saw this morning in the , Napier aquarium is the best I I’ve seen,” he said.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30977, 5 February 1966, Page 2
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152TUATARA LIZARD Press, Volume CV, Issue 30977, 5 February 1966, Page 2
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