LATEST FISH STORY. BLENHEIM PARTY’S FIND. BLENHEIM, December 11. A fish with a ticket for a dance in ils possession would seem to be something of a rarity, hut a find of this nature was made on Sunday last fiy a Blenheim party who were fishing ofr the mouth of the Awatere River from Mr T. Smith's launch. They hooked a large groper, and on opening it up discovered in its interior a yellow live shilling ticket, entitling the holder to admission to a dance at Hamilton. The dale on which, the dance was held, or was to lie held, had been obliterated. There was a good deal of conjecture, among the party as to how the ticket came to be devoured by the groper, the most, favoured theory being that the card had been dropped overboard from one of the ferry boats in the Strait. The groper, however, is a deep-water fish, and it seems probable that it had swallowed some surface-swimming fish, which had previously snapped up the ticket.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1924, Page 1
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