A NEW ZEALAND EEL-CHARMER. One has to go abroad to learn something of one's own land. Who. for instance, knew that we had an eelcharmer in New Zealand. The ''Daily Mirror illustrations bureau has supplied us with this photograph of Miss McCallum, a farmer's daughter, of Takaka. Nelson, who has the extraordinary faculty of calling large eels to her by striking the surface of the water. She feeds the eels and even strokes them."
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 804, 26 October 1929, Page 19
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74A NEW ZEALAND EEL-CHARMER. One has to go abroad to learn something of one's own land. Who. for instance, knew that we had an eelcharmer in New Zealand. The ''Daily Mirror illustrations bureau has supplied us with this photograph of Miss McCallum, a farmer's daughter, of Takaka. Nelson, who has the extraordinary faculty of calling large eels to her by striking the surface of the water. She feeds the eels and even strokes them." Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 804, 26 October 1929, Page 19
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