ARE THERE OTTERS IN NEW ZEALAND?
TO THE EDITOR 0» THOS FRKSS. Sir, —Professor Dendy, in his article on "Tile Land of the Notornis," says that several people are supposed to have seen an otter-like animal. Forty or fifty yeanago most people in the back country believed en their existence. In 1855 I was living on a station which covered all the Kowai rivers, under Mount Torlesse. On the station was a tarn which we called Easdale Tarn. One day the two shepherds, Mr R. S. Jackson, unfortunately now to be called the late reverend, and Mr Edward Harman, now of Opawa, came in and said that they had eat on the hill and watched otters, or some like animals, diving about in the tarn. The suggestion that they might have been shags was met with a negative.—Yours, etc., P.C.T.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10636, 21 April 1900, Page 3
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