lii connection with the stranding of a shoa: of blackfish at Astrolable, an eve-witness states that a number °f campers were startled by an unusual sound to seaward. They saw between 70 ami 80 blackfish heading for the bay. About a dozen in the lead became piled up on the-rocks in a small cove, and the remainder, after manoeuvring in shallow water, turned seawaids, but tor some unknown reason they turned in their course and beaded back to the land, making for a small opening where a stream meets the sea, They crashed into the rocks, following one another like sheep, and lashing the water into foam in their efforts to escape. Some of the fisn measured 22ft in length. A number were dispatched with knives by visitors to the scene, The question of , disposing of the carcases is causing concern in the neighbourhood.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4657, 4 February 1924, Page 3
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