THE SNAKE MAN
UNUSUAL ATTRACTION FOR A. AND P. SHOW There arrived in Wellington by the Awatea on 11th October Pambo, one vt Australia's outstanding snake experts, with his collection of deadly Australian snakes which includes the venomous brown, black and copperhead. Pambo has had twenty years’ experience in handling venomous snakes, and has been bitten no fewer thar. five hundred times during that period. He claims he has an antidote that is infallible and sells his cure wherever he goes in Australia, though New Zealand will not be requiring his cure as, fortunately there arc no snakes here. Much trouble and expense were necessary before Pambo was able to obtain the necessary permission to bring his collection to New Zealand. This, however, was eventually' obtained for a limited period. Pambo will be showing at the A and P. Show on a specially consliucted raised platform from which spectators will, in comfort, be able to look into the pit of death where lie will entertain them with his strange and dangerous pets.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 15 November 1937, Page 6
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172THE SNAKE MAN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 15 November 1937, Page 6
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