CROCODILE STORY

Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3664, 6 February 1940, Page 2

CROCODILE STORY

SEEN ON N.S.W. BEACH DOUBT AS TO EXISTENCE lit is not unusual for tigers and lions to be seen in various parts of New South Wales. Reports of these strange animals filter in to country towns, gain currency and finally arouse the interest of a jaded city during slack periods of the year. Often these animals are figments of fertile country imagination; sometimes, when a hunt has been organised, and the creatui'e finally shot, it proves to be some huge cross between a kangaroo dog and a dingo, a breed whose depredations in sheep areas are considei'able. 'The latest creature to arouse interest is the "Angourie crocodile." Angourie is a beach near .Grafton, on the north coast of New South Wales, and well out of the tropical zone in which one might expect to find crocodiles. The crocodile has not actually been seen; but tracks have been discovered leading to swamps. Spring traps and extensive searches have so far failed to bring the reptile, if it exists, to book.