RARE WHALE SKELETON.
DISCOVERY ON BEACH. Tho skeleton of a rare whale will be transferred to the Wanganui Museum as soon as it can bo conveyed from the beach near Waverley, where it was found last wepk. Tho whale was found by Mr. R. J. Johnston, who informed Mr. Shepherd, curator of the Wanganui Museum, that the whale w#s peculiar. Mr. Shepherd went to the beach and identified the mammal as a southern-beaked whale or mesoplodon grayi. It was some 17ft. long ajid with a girth of Bft. Bin.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20991, 30 September 1931, Page 8
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89RARE WHALE SKELETON. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20991, 30 September 1931, Page 8
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