GREAT BARRIER TURTLES.
(Sent in by Joyce Wiles, 10, Bellwood Avenue, Dominion Road; age 8.)
Along the jGreat Barrier reef the turtles arc captured for soup making, by men employed b'y canneries. '' The creatures are intercepted when on their way back from egg-laying to the sea, and simply turned over on their backs in which position they are helpless, and left on the beach until required. It takes two men to turn a good sized turtlo over, for the creatures weigh anything up to 6001b.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 216, 12 September 1934, Page 16
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85GREAT BARRIER TURTLES. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 216, 12 September 1934, Page 16
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