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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 14

Snakes arc not only very much in evidence in the country in New South Wales, but in some centres, notably Bathurst, they are adopting a bellicose attitude towards those who cross their path'freports our Sydney correspondent). There have been several thrilling encounters with them round Bathurst. Of the stories appearing in the press of those experiences, one of the most remarkable concerns a railway employee who, while attending to pumping operations, was confronted with an aggressive snake of unusually large dimensions. For a time the snake had him cornered. Ho was powerless to act, until a mate came along and helped him out of an ugly predicament. The two of them finally killed the snake, which measured Bft. As women are afraid to visit the local cometory, because of the report that it is alive with snakes, a vigilance committee has been appointed systematically to search for the rcptiles-