German Ships in Port.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1939, Page 4

German Ships in Port.

For the first time in the history of the port of Auckland two ships of the North German Lloyd Company, of Bremen, were in port at the same time —the company’s training barque. Kommodore Johnsen, and the steamer Anhalt, which arrived from New Orleans. North German Lloyd, one of the great German shipping companies, is engaged in a service from the Gulf of Mexico to New Zealand in conjunction with the Hamburg-Amerika Company and the Anhalt is a regular visitor to Auckland. Interest in Tuataras. Keen interest in the tuatara lizards at the Auckland Zoo was shown by members of the expedition from the American Museum of Natural History, New York. One of the party who has discussed the tuatara in lectures over a period of many years had never before seen a living specimen, having handled museum exhibits only. He hopes to secure permission to take a live one back to the United States. Including one captured at Northcote recently, the Auckland Zoo possesses three of these ’rare New Zealand reptiles. Few overseas zoos have them, the sole specimen at Regent’s Park Zoo, London, for many years being one presented by Sir George Grey in 1868. It was still alive some years ago. i