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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12767, 8 February 1910, Page 4

After feasting on frozen pig from : Ohina and chilled beef from New Zealand, London gourmets are now : being treated to froze tnurtles from Queensland, says ah English journal. The" turtles are killed soon after cap- ' ture, frozen and Tshipped to England by mail steamer. There are about 400 of them in England at present. They weigh from 160 pounds to 300 i pounds. One extra large turtle of 385 pounds would be worth £20 alive, but Tin a frozen state only fetch : es 7 h& a "pound. They seem to give • ■satisf action at hotels and clubs, and : , the future y development of the Queensland frozen turtle trade lookg bright*