SHOCK FOR FRUTTERER.
LONDON, Fob. 0. The light-hearted labourers in banana plantations do not waste much time it. examining the crop as they lop off the great hanging bunches of fruit. Should there by any live-stock concealed in the bananas—well, it is an extra bonus for the purchaser. One such bonus has just reached the London Zoo in the shape of a very active and healthy young boa-constrictor. It was found in a crate by a fruit merchant whose place of business is in the Borough Higli-street, S.K. Those who handle bananas are rnthei used to this kind of surprise—though it is unnerving to inexperienced young women assistants —and the creature was captured and sent to J’egent s Park, where it is now half-way through the business of changing its skin. If you felt this particular snake tighten its coils round your wrist you would realise that it was in the pink of condition. Other creatures that have reached the Zoo as stowaways in bunches of bananas include giant poisonous spiders and young opossums, as well as snakes and lizards.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1924, Page 1
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180SHOCK FOR FRUTTERER. Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1924, Page 1
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