OCTOPUS IN THE BATH.
MAN WAS ABOUT TO DIVE. DREW BACK IN TIME. WELLINGTON, June IS. A monster octopus, measuring seventeen to eighteen f£et from tentacle tip to tentacle tip, was caught in the Tc Aro Public Baths, Wellington, yesterday. A man was 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 on realising what the creature was he went for the caretaker. Between them, they dragged the brute out with a fifteen-foot fork and a 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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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17567, 18 June 1925, Page 8
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