FIFTY YEARS AGO
"MONSTER" IN WAIKATO STORIES CAUSE ALARM t .■ Storiea about the presence of a monster in the district were causing some alarm in the Waikato half a century ago. A Hamilton message appearing in the New Zealand Herald of October 1, 18S6, dealing with the matter said:— "This creature's appearance has created quite a sensation. Yesterday Mounted Constable Wild visited Mr. Castleton's farm, examined the locality and questioned some boys., with whose veracity he states himself perfectly satisfied. It has been flippantly suggested by the local paper that it is one of Qualtrough and White's pigs, which has escaped from the slaughter yards, but both Mr. Castleton and his boys ridicule-the idea tint they could have made any such mistake, "The natives say stories are extant among them of a very large kind of auinial like an eel, wliicb has come out of the water at times and chased them, even seizing their legs in its,teeth. 'lhe beast is called by them the tuna-roa and they say that a large one inhabits a deep pool formed by the Waipa River near Fraser's farm."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22538, 1 October 1936, Page 8
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185FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22538, 1 October 1936, Page 8
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