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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16805, 11 August 1925, Page 11

Weird noises, utterly inexplicable to the. inmalcfi. bad kept the people in two houses at. Island Ray a.w.ako fog several nights. Energetic search seemed to quiet, the souudp immediately, blit they repeat cd themselves at intervals. The noises came, from the basement, of one of. the houses, hut the unrest hftd communicated itself next, floor. A thoroughly, system alie overhaul of the lower- part of tho house disclosed', four spilling hedgehogs. These dispatched. Die resident imagined, he bad dealt, with the trouble, but nextnight fresh, disturbances arose. Hurriedly dressed, and armed with a stick, the resident 'font down HR 11 '!' 1 people next door wore again out of hed, Near the noise the investigator struck a match. Almost instantly a dark head rqse from among some, debris, and; it was quickly struck dpw.n. The cause of the sounds had been accounted for—it, was’ a- good-sized penguin. It transpires that the house, which was only recently erected, is built over an old-established breeding-spot for penguins, successive generations of which breed, in the. samp'. 1 site.