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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16212, 24 August 1923, Page 3

The continued wet weather has had a marked effect on Lake Waikaremoana, it having risen very rapidly. During the heaviest rain ‘it rose one foot in 24 hours and it is now higher than it 4ias been for a considerable number of years. Two years ago a well-known Te Kuiti resident returned from a holiday to Australia with two turtles. After a week or so one disapepared, and has not been seen since. Tho other haunted the precincts of the house for nearly three months before it, too, finally disappeared. On going to the gate a few days ago for the mail, one of the members of the family was surprised to see one of the turtles sunning itself on the banks of a creek near the' gate. For twenty months the turtle apparently had lived near the creek, incidentally surviving almost two severe winters.