Its wounds healed, the injured seal which took up its quarters at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Carter, on the Napier Marino Parade, was returned to the sen the other day and was las l seen swimming in the direction of Mahia Peninsula. The visitor's departure was witnessed by many people. "Flippy” refused to be hurried, and actually held up traffic for a while as it crosed the road. Il rested at intervals on the way across the bc-ach. standing upright, or nearly so. and gazing intently around. At the edge of the breakers it turned and bellowed a farewell at Mr and Mrs. Carter, and then shot under an advancing wave and set off across the Lav,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1939, Page 7
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