A MONSTER EEL.
SIX FEET LONG AND tliLB IK WEIGHT. cm nw »phm mnm-i AUCKLAND. Febrnair 14. Probably op* of (K* large*! eels ever ea-ugbt ft) New Ze« land rkim it a 34jpotind*r iasdrct bv ■. wo you tig Mies, Lw Or*, of C*irbr»ds« and P*t fsaiith, who, while fitbmg frcsn a rfumbf in tht Httti Stream. noticed a bark form tvitßßiing in clear mUt. A fiatfiah made oil two «hark»" boom rtnufthtnted ©«t, *-a» «t one® uaed aith effect, the tharp pouit pvnetreting the mo&c:«r deep:? jost behind _ The battle with the slippery- &th titsiwd from 1045 m*m» until 2 \* -tn when, after mcmpirm ntnv nma, the «•! «M finally landed on the tpaar lu month «u ml with raapltae The e>d me* cured «i»c<ir aut f*ei in toajrth and it vu 18 mc-hea round tba jdrth. Wh*n opeoad it «w ftwml to hav* as empty rtomads, bfst «n >tbmaeaety fat. An act caught at letf*wood i*4 wvightaf JO jib «rat roavdtred to bare hatw a record.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19545, 15 February 1929, Page 10
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166A MONSTER EEL. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19545, 15 February 1929, Page 10
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