DOMINION NEWS
NUMEROUS OCTOPUSES. HUNDREDS LEFT BY TIDE NEAR DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, May 10. Hundreds of octopuses were to seen stranded among the rocks left bare bv low tide along the shore between Anderson's Bay and Portobello yesterday. They varied in size, though most of them measured about G foot from tip to tip of the tentacles. Naturalists do not understand the mysterious urge of certain fish to breed and then seek shallow water in which to die. Octopuses a t certain seasons are moved in this way, and so they are left high and dry, not because of heavy storms and buffeting as most people believe.
Schools of whales, as many as a hundred at a time, have been found driven on shore and the occurrence has been attributed to the same unfathomable phenomenon of nature. MOTORISTS’ CAMPS COMPLAINT OF GATE-CRASHING. O’res* As'-’ocpi' Pu-.i CHRISTCHURCH. -Mn v 17 Complaints of gate crashers using motorists' camps were discussed by tbe South Island Mol-or Union last evening. The Nelson and -Southland associations wrote declaring that many normembers were securing concessions to which only members were entitled. " The secretary mentioned that ono objection, appeared to be the use of camping grounds by commercial travellers and pedlars. ’Flie union decided to write to the Southland Union asking for a dqffui---proposal as to what should be doa e to safeguard members’ interests.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11947, 18 May 1933, Page 3
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