SNAKE FROM ISLANDS
MUSEUM TAKES POSSESSION
(By Telegraph.—Press Assoumtiou.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Excitement reigned in a city fruit warehouse this morning when a brown' Ufijian. tree snake, 20 inches long, was discovered among a banana shipment which was being unpacked. One workman, more daring than the others, picked it up with two sticks and dropped it in a tin. Later, one of the' Auckland Museum staff arrived, chloroformed the snake, and took it to the museum.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 10
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