A FATAL SLEEP
KAITOKE RUNS DOWN BIG SUNFISH With a sunfish some ten to twelve feel long lying stretched across her bows the Union Company’s Kaitoke presented a somewhat unusual sight when she berthed at-'No. 1 North Queen’s Wharf on Wednesday afternoon. . /_ When the vessel, which was just inside the Wellington Heads, struck the fish it must have been lying asleep on the surface, and a member of the crew who went forward to see what had caused the jar was astonished to see the huge fish wedged firmly across the bows of the ship. In this position it was left until the Kaitoke was coming alongside the wharf, when the crew lowered a small grappling hook into the creature’s mouth and’hauled its vast bulk partway out of the water and left it hanging there against the ship’s bow for the numerous curious people who wander round the wharves on a fine evening to gaze at and ponder on. An hour or two later the greater part of the body below where the ship struck the fish tore away, and the head was left dangling just out of the water, a curious sight with its huge bulging eyes and tiny mouth.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 102, 24 January 1930, Page 7
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201A FATAL SLEEP Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 102, 24 January 1930, Page 7
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