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Otago Witness, Issue 3803, 1 February 1927, Page 77

A unique experience was the lot of a party of motorists returning to Napier recently from Wairoa (says the Daily Telegraph). When traversing the road bordering the Tangoio lagoon the vehicle ran into a swarm of frogs busily engaged in hopping across the thoroughfare from the landward side. . To a reporter one of the party confided the. intelligence that so numerous were the reptiles and so energetic in their athletics that it seemed as if the whole road itself was alive and engaged in a hopping competition. _ In the glare of the car’s headlights the jumping creatures presented an almost - uncanny sight! ‘"Talk about the plague, of frogs in. Egypt',”-said the m.otorist. ,‘Tm open to gamble that Pharaoh had nothing on pur little experience,”