BROKEN POWER LINE
FLYING FOX RESPONSIBLE Br Telegraph.—Press association. Hamilton, September 22. As an outcome of the statement by Mr. C. Dasent, secretary of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, questioning the report that a flying-fox was responsible for breaking a power line at Matangi, a reporter paid , a visit to Mr. J. Holmes, taxidermist, of Hamilton, who has the animal stuffed. There is no doubt that it is a flying-fox. The furred body is about nine inches long, and the head, which has an unmistakable resemblence to a fox. is furnished with canine teeth. The wings are thin, like those of a bat, and have a span of about three feet. .There is a slight singeing of the fur where. the animal came in contact with the wire Mr. Holmes thought it likely that the animal came to New Zealand with some fruit from Australia. With regard to the statement that the wire could not have been broken by a flving-fox, he said that the contact had caused a short circuit, which had made the wire snap.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 307, 23 September 1926, Page 8
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