No Snake Found
After searching for three hours yesterday afternoon six ; members of the quarantine , branch of the Department of . Agriculture failed to find a ’ snake reported to have been seen recently in the coal yard of G. McCiatchie and Company, Ltd, Lake Road, Leest ton. Mr G. Skinner, of the , “Ellesmere Guardian,” said , yesterday that the senior port , agriculture officer (Mr C. H. i Crapp) had been directed by , the Department of Agriculi tore in Wellington to make ■ the search. Mr Crapp had in- ■ terviewed two residents who claimed to have seen a snake.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32077, 27 August 1969, Page 12
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