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Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1922, Page 9

Mild excitement prevailed on the Wellington waterfront on a recent evening, when the news circulated that a strange fish could be seen disporting itself around the propellers of the coastal steamer Gale, which was lying at No. o Queen’s wharf. Three people, who witnessed the antics of the stranger, allege that its proportions would compare favorably with those of a cow, that its .eyes were “as large as saucers,” and that it possessed an inordinately long tail. As the Gale took her departure at 9 p.m. the fish, it is said, could be seen rising above the water to the swell caused by the churning of the propellers, but shortly afterward it disappeared. An old seafaring identity, who saw the fish only indistinctly, informed a reporter that he believed it to be a seal of the tua species, and that some years ago one of the same variety inhabited the water around No. 4 Queen's wharf for about three weeks.