An octopus suspended in the window of a Queen Street shop attracted the attention of many paSsers-by on Wednesday (states the “New Zealand Herald”). The octopus, which was a medium-sized one, measured about nine feet from tip to tip of the tentacles. The fish was caught in the Hauraki Gulf during the trawling operations. It is stated that the octopus was powerful enough to drag down a man.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 138, 7 March 1930, Page 13
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