SEAL ON ROAD
SECURED FOR ZOO. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 15. A bus full of passengers was to-day surprised to. see in the middle of the road at Petone, near Pipe bridge, a fully-grown seal. The Polar visitor was seven feet long and white in colour. While the bus passengers watched the unusual spectacle, the seal, with a few guttural barks, crawled under a wire fence and clumsily made its way across a paddock, finally plunging into the muddy Hutt river. Later in the day the seal was discovered near the Shandon golf links. It was secured and transported to the Wellington Zoo by an official who considers it must have made its way from the Antarctic. It is in good condition but suffering from a bad cold.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19330616.2.116
Bibliographic details
Southland Times, Issue 22043, 16 June 1933, Page 11
Word Count
130SEAL ON ROAD Southland Times, Issue 22043, 16 June 1933, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in