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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 34, 9 August 1921, Page 8

The discovery of an eel in a waterpip© attached to a houso situated between 'Wellington-terrace and Cliftonterrace, has led a reader of Tho Post to seek an explanation from natural history'students.' The pipe, he states, runs from a sink to the ground, and recently it became blocked. Hot water, lysol, antr an acid were each used as a means to clear the pipe, but without succe&s. A few days later, however, the matter ' suddenly became free and was deposited in the trap at the bottom of the pipe. Upon investigation it was found CO lie an eel. Being An a decomposed sUu"! it was immediately buried; but it has left the household a dim-cult problem—how did the eel happen to get to such a pliice? The house is on :i high level, being fifty-four steps above Wefliiigton-terraice. The eel ihad evidently worked its way up tho pipe, until it could go no further, and had then been unable to survive the hot-water discharges. Tho eel w-as fully Oin in length. '.. "

Messrs. Hodgkins, Carver and Co, will sell utility poultry at their mart to-mor-row at 1.30 p.m.