FLIGHT TO SYDNEY
Dolphins From Napier (N.Z. Press Association) NAPIER, May 29. Napier’s two dolphins. Splasher and Yenko, will be flown to Australia this week. They will be the first dolphins exported from New Zealand. The director of the Taronga Park Zoo aquarium, Sydney, Mr D. Boness, has arrived in Napier to take delivery. On Thursday the dolphins will be loaded on a chartered aircraft at the Hawke's Bay Airport to leave at 7 a.m. for Auckland.
There they will be loaded on a Quantas jet airliner and by 1.30 p.m. should be swimming around the pool in their new home.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31072, 30 May 1966, Page 22
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101FLIGHT TO SYDNEY Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31072, 30 May 1966, Page 22
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