HUGE OCTUPUS
-Press Association.)
Washed Ashore on Petone Beach
(By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, This Day. A huge octopus with tentaeles 22 feet iong came ashore near Petone this morning, apparently in a dying condition. It is the biggest ever known in Wellington waters and of a size very rare outside the tropics. It had been beaten by the waves and at is not likely to remain long as a speetacle. It has been photographed, and this is the only record likely to survive itsdecease.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 5
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