SNAILS THAT FLY
How snails are sometimes numbered among the world’s swiftest travellers was explained by Air-Commodore J. A. Chamier in a lantern lecture at the Imperial Institute, London. Composed largely of school children, the audience was greatly amused to hear that a chimpanzee for the zoo was a recent aeroplane passenger, arriving at Croydon with an ordinary passenger ticket. “He wore an overcoat, and the booking clerk probably took him for a professor,” said the lecturer. More than 2,000,000 snails take to the air every year for the benefit of the gourmet. Lobsters are transported in special tanks so that they may arrive fresh. These animals, destined to be boiled soon after they land, are insured against forced landings and fire. A cargo of bees is common freight.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19751, 19 March 1934, Page 10
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129SNAILS THAT FLY Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19751, 19 March 1934, Page 10
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