MONGOOSES FOR DUNEDIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 4

MONGOOSES FOR DUNEDIN

LANDING PROHIBITED. NO 7.00 IN SOUTHERN CITY. DUNEDIN, Jan. 23. A report from Auckland that two mongooses had arrived on the Narbada. consigned to the ‘•Dunedin Zoo,” recently reached Dunedin, but this city has no zoo and none of the city authorities could throw any light on the destination of the animals. It now appears that a representative of an Eastern tea firm, who makes perodieal visits to New Zealand, was jocularly asked by a Dunedin friend why he did not send him out a mongoose or two. The Dunedin resident, who lives in the suburb of Musselburgh, and is well known in football and bowling circles throughout the IDominion, is a 'great lover of animals anil birds and has several at his home. This apparently, explains why the animals were sent to the Dunedin Zoo. Advice has been received that the mongooses will not be permitted ty land in New Zealand. If the sender has to bear the cost of sending them to New Zealand and back again to their port of shipment the joke will bp rather an expensive one.