FOND OF COMPANY
SEA LION SEEKS FRIENDS ON COASTAL STATION.
INCLINED TO TAKE PART IN MUSTERING.
For the last three weeks a sea lion has been a happy visitor to the beach at Tora, some 30 miles out from Martinborough. In that time it has become a great favourite with local residents, shearers and Maoris, all of whom can freely fondle it or even wrestle with it, as many of the Maoris do. It is a large sea-lion, fully grown and seems to enjoy human company so much that when its playful visitors leave, it cries like a baby, plaintively and fearfully. A Masterton visitor to the beach, who returned yesterday, said that he frequently sat on its back and play? ed with it for upwards of half-an-hour. He did not try the vigorous tactics of the Maoris, but it was obvious that the sea lion really enjoyed playful fun, however vigorou's it might be.
The beach fronts one of Riddiford’s stations managed by Mr C. H. Wilson. At present shearing, is in progress there and when the sheep are driven down to the beach preparatory to entering the shearing shed, the sea lion gambols among them. The sheep, however, are afraid of this frolicking visitor, and additional work so devolves upon the men to keep him away.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1938, Page 6
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218FOND OF COMPANY Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1938, Page 6
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