A NEW ZEALAND EEL-CHARMER.— One has to go abroad to learn something of one’s own land. Who, for instance, knew that we had an eel-charmer in New Zealand? The “Daily Mirror" illustrations Bureau has supplied us with this photograph of Miss McCallum, a farmer’s daughter, of Takaka, Nelson, who “has the extraordinary faculty of calling large eels to her by striking the surface of the water. She feeds the eels and even strokes them.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 283, 14 November 1929, Page 5
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74A NEW ZEALAND EEL-CHARMER.—One has to go abroad to learn something of one’s own land. Who, for instance, knew that we had an eel-charmer in New Zealand? The “Daily Mirror" illustrations Bureau has supplied us with this photograph of Miss McCallum, a farmer’s daughter, of Takaka, Nelson, who “has the extraordinary faculty of calling large eels to her by striking the surface of the water. She feeds the eels and even strokes them.” Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 283, 14 November 1929, Page 5
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