Pearls from Mussels.
A recent paragraph in an Auckland paper mentioned the finding of a black pearl in a mussel at St. Halier's Bay. The pearls found in mussels (writes the Stewart Island correspondent of the “Southland News”) are usually white and quite well coloured when found, hut iftey soon discolour when exposed to the light. The black ones keep their lustre better, hut fade to a certain extent also, which makes one think that the purchaser at £SO of the St. Helier’s Bay pearl would not get a very good bargain. At Ruggedy and Mason Bay on the west coast of Stewart Island the largo mussels are well peppered with pearls of all shapes and sizes, but are only occasionally round. Local residents occasionally collect them and place them in water in bottles, where they keep their lustre for a fairly long time.
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Franklin Times, Volume XX, Issue 80, 14 July 1930, Page 2
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144Pearls from Mussels. Franklin Times, Volume XX, Issue 80, 14 July 1930, Page 2
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