A TALL STORY

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 21 March 1919, Page 4

A TALL STORY

; The Auckland ".Observer" does not take.,Mr Levy's Moa story seriously. Our contemporary says:— Ivan, M. Levy has been'shipping reportgr e'ii Wellington "Tiuics-'-' for about a dozen years, a life without adventure, although he may have dabbled in sea-serpents. He lately' invaded the TJrewera country on a holiday, and the long years' of peace were broken like a cotton thread. The " Wairarapa Ago'" tells the terrible story. A moa, observing the journalist, lay"in -Wiut'J'or him in a valley, reaving, its head' .I i feet/above the scenery, attacked Kim;-; and; inflicted severe injuries.; Mr Levy found it necessary io hide in a cave. He escaped by being swept down some rapids, into which he was thrown by the bird, and was rescued by a shepherd, who took him to the homestead and-called up medical aid. Mr Levy-has told his adventures to the' Orfhonological Society, and an expedition'has been sent to And the moa. The expedition consists of five scientists, a-surveyor, three zoologists, four ..expert keepers,., and a big game hunter from Africa. The record ends here. Mr Levy is a native of BalrnjiaW. "(N.S/W.), and a son of a former -Mayor.'' Together,- his-Worship and his son slew the Tantanoola tiger, the skin of which was stuffed, and is now placed in a special room in the Xarrandera National Museum. Mr Levy also possesses t>ho largest bunyip skin ever obtained, having lassooed it froni-his launch:imthe:hills of the Spo* waa country. He was ; onee carried-for 93 miles down the- Murnimbidgeo by a gigantic Murray.' cad, and thrown ashore near a billabong. "Beingsarr. amateur engineer, hel damned the M'tirrumbidgec. - ' " ' ; .' " . *