SCOTTISH COMEDY. LONDON, October 28. \n intensified version of how to deal with a stranded whale is reported from D in°’wall (Scotland), when 150 carcases were stranded in Dornoch Fitli during a massed attack on shoals of herrings. Experts inspected them and pronounced them “true fishes royal.” Therefore they belong to the King. The Health authorities requested the Royal Health Board to dispose of the menace, hut the board replied that it was the Customs officers’ business, as the King was only concerned scientifically, especially if the fishes were required as museum specimens. The local council then decided in the interest sof local health, to tow the carcases to deep water before they putrefied,
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1927, Page 2
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