STRUCK SEA MONSTER
— Maunganui’s Experience When Near Papeete ALARM AMONG PASSENGERS ANIMAL SEEN PREVIOUSLY <liy jßTßprnpn-"Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 17. When the Mauriganui was about a day out from Papeete she struck a sea monster, causing some alarm and anxiety among the passengers. She had to go astern to free herself. Some months ago the Maunganui, on the way from Papeete to ’Frisco with Mr Zane Grey as a passenger, sighted a similar animal which Mr Grey described as 50 feet long and 10 feet across the nose. The ship’s doctor says that the animal struck on the present trip was the same one or similar. Mr Grey at first said the monster was a whale, but afterwards said it was not a whale, hut a great fish.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 17 September 1934, Page 6
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128STRUCK SEA MONSTER Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 17 September 1934, Page 6
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