Intervention of Seabird
The intervention of a seabird put a sudden stop to a children’s game at the Hamilton Lake Domain. The children were playing cricket near the lake foreshore, and a heavy stroke landed the tennis ball they were using into the lake. A fieldsman had began to wade out for it, when a large seabird swept down and flew off with the ball in its beak.
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Southland Times, Issue 23794, 17 April 1939, Page 6
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68Intervention of Seabird Southland Times, Issue 23794, 17 April 1939, Page 6
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