3ft LIZARD CAUGHT
Australian Monitor (N.Z. Press Association) HASTINGS. Nov. 19. An Australian monitor lizard, about 3ft in length, was found on a power pole in Pakowhai road, Hastings, yesterday. It was caught and put in a pen in the aviary at Cornwall Park, where it has been a source of interest to a large number of people. The fate of the lizard will probably be decided by the Department of Agriculture.
A spokesman for the department in Hastings said today that his head office in Wellington would be informed and he would await instructions from there.
“We are naturally interested to know how it got here and where it came from,” he said. "If it is retained it will have to be kept where it cannot escape. We don’t want that sort of reptile roaming the country.”
Victorian Oranges. The Union Company’s motor vessel, Tarawera, is due at Lyttelton from Wellington today with 16,285 cases of Victorian oranges for discharge.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29984, 20 November 1962, Page 8
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