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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 113, 6 February 1935, Page 6

On a recent fishing expedition to Starvation Bay, just outside Lyttelton Heads, a member of the party captured a baby seagull and decided. to take it home as a pet. (the mother followed the dinghy out to the launch and kept an eye on the boat all the way back to Lytteltftn, a distance of about ten miles, and it was only after the inner harbour was reached that the mother was lost sight of (reports the Christchurch “Star”). The chicken was brought through to Christchurch that: night, and was installed in its new home at Bromley. About 10 o’clock the following day, when the new pet was squatting oh the lawn of the house at Bromley, the parent seagull swooped down, picked it up' in its beak, and flew off again in the direction of Lyttelton,