The crab-eating seal, which was found at Petone last week, is a female, not quite fully grown. One of the variety was found oil Wanganui in 1885, and its skin is preserved in the museum there. Another was found on the Petone beach in 1916, and was taken to the zoo, w'here it later died. Its skull is preserved In the Dominion Museum. The latest visitor, the third of its kind known to reach New Zealand, apparently swam up the mouth of the Hutt River, and went on to the Shandon golf links, where it was found bv the staff, and taken to the zoo. The seal, which is suffering from a severe cold, had shown no appetite up to Saturday.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19523, 24 June 1933, Page 19
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