FISH WITH FALSE TEETH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 1 February 1936, Page 6

FISH WITH FALSE TEETH

ANGLER’S UNUSUAL CATCH When a New Plymouth Rowing Club oarsman lost a set of false teeth m the sea while practising on 18th November and found bis lonely patrols up am! down the beach after each tide in vain he gave the teeth up as -lost. Fate has decreed otherwise, however, auu to-day the young man has a snare denturs-his original set —after they had been swa lowed by a fish (records the DailyNews”). , , It happened that when the teeth sank in the deep waters of the port they were spied bv an adult gurnard. Being an enterorising fish, but ignorant, lie swallowed the “mouthful.” Although he was thus distinguished as being one of the few finned creatures with false teeth he did not leave his home town but continued his everyday life round the piles ot New Plymouth’s wharves. On Thursday, however, lie took the bait of a fisherman sitting on Newton King wharf and was hauled out and premired for supper. In his stomach the teeth were found, scarcely altered in appearance in spite of their work o aiding the digestion of a fish s food, and now they have been identified and restored to their astonished owner.