A STRANGE DISCOVERY.
DANCE TICKET IN GROPER. LAUNCH PARTY'S FIND. - ■ *' HAMILTON TO BLENHEIM, [bit telegraph.— OWN COR RESPONDENT.] .BLENHEIM. Thursday, A fish with a ticket for a dance in its possession would seem to be something of , ; a rarity, but a curious find of this nature > was made last Sunday, by a Blenheim party fishing in a launch off the mouth of the Awaterc. They hooked a large ' groper, and on opening it up discovered in its interior a yellow 5s ticket entitling tho holder to admission to a dance at Hamilton. The date on which the dance > ' was held or was to be held had been obliterated. There was a good deal of interested conjecture among the party as to how the ticket came to be devoured by the groper, tho most favoured theory being that the i card had been dropped overboard from ono of the ferry boats. The groper, however, is a deep-water fish, and it seems probable that it had swallowed somo su'r : face-swimming fish which had previously snapped up thc*~€rcket.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18890, 12 December 1924, Page 10
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175A STRANGE DISCOVERY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18890, 12 December 1924, Page 10
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