DEAD SNAKES FOUND.
Incident at Pokeno. Press Association—Copyright. Auckland, March 11. Three dead snakes were found near the roadside at Pokeno by a man working on a cutting that is being made for a new railway bridge. A motor car was wrecked at that spot the night before and it is thought that its occupants Were travelling showmen who had snakes in a bottle among their “properties.”
The three snakes are thought to be of the Australian death adder variety. Although the larg.st is only about 18 inches long their discovery and the rumour that they were alive when found were quite sufficient to cause considerable anxiety among those residents of Pokeno who learned of the incident, and also to- be responsible for an. enthusiastic snake hunt by school children. The /two smaller
specimens are about 12 inches ' long. They all have a black body with whitish underside. When they were found to -be dead the smell of preservative was' also apparent.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 381, 12 March 1937, Page 5
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162DEAD SNAKES FOUND. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 381, 12 March 1937, Page 5
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