THE UNWANTED "BOA"
OWNER IS INDIGNANT. Electric Telegrsj.h—Press Association WELLINGTON This Day. “It is strange that I wasn't informed,” said Mr Scott-, who knew nothin_c or thoi death or the snake lato yesterday evening. “I declared the ,i i.u maj quite openly, and was told it would be perfectly all right left locked up aboard the ship, in the care of the chief steward.” He had visited the snake several times since landing, hut it would have been equally' well off without attention, safely under lock and key. It needed no food or water for a month at a time. He had intended rejoining the Remuera for her Homeward passage. When he visited the curator of the Zoo a f<w hours after landing and was told the snake could not be brought ashore, he hod contemplated sending it hack to London by the Remuera. He expressed surprise and auger at its untimely death.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13166, 27 January 1936, Page 7
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153THE UNWANTED "BOA" Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13166, 27 January 1936, Page 7
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