OCTUPUS IN BATHS.
SENSATION AT WELLINGTON. EIGHTEEN-FOOT MONSTER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. ▲ monster octopus measuring 17 to 1€ feet from tentacle tip to tentacle tip Was caught in the Te Aro public baths, Wellington, yesterday. A man wae on the point of diving into the water when he noticed something squirming along the bottom of the baths. He managed to retain his footing on the diving platform, and cm realising what the creature was he went for the caretaker. Between them they dragged the brute out with a fif-teen-foot fork and boathook. No one who saw it could recall having seen such a large octopus before. If the brute did not get through the iron grids (of which the mesh is not •more than two inches and the bars no wider), it must have climbed over the wall of the baths.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1925, Page 7
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