AN UNUSUAL SIGHT.
PORPOISES IN WAIHOU RIVER. SCHOOL PASSES TURUA. A most unusual sight was witnessed at furua yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, shortly after 3 o’clock, when .a school of porpoises, about a dozen in alh was seen making its Way - upstream. It is also reported that they were seen towards the sea .a few minutes later but’there is no confirmation'of this.- At the -time of writing they may be still in the" river. A launchman, on the Turua-Kopu run, also states that in the morning, about 8 o’clock, when the tide was fairly ’low, he saw a number of porpoises in the river.- . The presence of porpoises in a river is a very rare occurenc.e, and naturally some little surprise was evinced when the fact was made known.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4317, 14 September 1921, Page 2
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128AN UNUSUAL SIGHT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4317, 14 September 1921, Page 2
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