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SEAL AT WELLINGTON APPARENTLY WOUNDED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. A large and interested crowd gathered on the Taranaki street wharf today to view a seal which had clambered on the rocks nearby. The seal was apparently exhausted and feeling the effects of a small wound, which: looked as if it had been made by a; bullet. Crowds watching the seal perceived that it would not cat and was slightly wounded, and freply expressed the opinion that it w'as dying. The Marine Department, lire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Dominion Museum authorities were notified, and officials debated the animal’s fate. It was decided it should be put out of its misery and be converted into a museum exhibit, but the seal had other ideas. When dusk came and the tide rose, it quietly slipped into th 6 water and swam away. It was identified as a Weddell seal, the second of its kind to be observed on the coast. The previous one was taken at Titahi Bay some years age, and is now in the Dominion Museum.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19364, 30 June 1937, Page 8
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