SEAL APPEARS ON HIGHWAY
SURPRISE FOR. BUS PASSENGERS
CAPTURE FOR WELLINGTON ZOO
(LJv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. June 15. A bus full of passengers to-day was surprised to see in the middle of tlie road at Petone, near tlie pipe bridge, a fultv-grown seal. The -Polar visitor was 7ft' long and white in colour. While the bus passengers watched tlie unusual spectacle tlie seal with a few guttural barks crawled under; a wire fence and c-lu.msilv made its way across a -paddock, finally plunging into the muddy Hutt River. Later in the day the seal was discovered near the Sliandon golf links. I t was secured and transported to the Wellington zoo by an official, who considered’ it must have made its way from the Antarctic. It is m good condition but is suffering from a bad cold.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 16 June 1933, Page 5
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137SEAL APPEARS ON HIGHWAY Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 16 June 1933, Page 5
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