MUSEUM INQUIRY FROM AMERICA
Wanganui’s Alexander Museum has a renown much greater than many of the local citizens realise, and the latest testimony to this is a letter received from America requesting information. The inquirer, a Californian writer of juvenile books, asked for details of a “dolphin which guides ships through the Pelorus Sounds in succession to his father who did the same 84 years ago.” The information required was able to be supplied through a booklet published by Dr. W. B. Oliver, of the Dominion Museum, entitled “A Pied Variety of the Coastal Porpoise.” This porpoise was first noticed in the Kukapa Reach of the Pelorus Sounds in September. 1944. A white, animal, it met passing launches and accompanied them for some distance, playing around the bows. The original “Pelorus Jack” was a grey dolphin which was last seen in 1912. “Pelorus Jack" won ( such a name for himself and his ship guiding exploits that he was protected by a special Order in Counc I. The American statement that the latter-day pilot is a son of the famous original is a debatable point.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 161, 13 July 1946, Page 4
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184MUSEUM INQUIRY FROM AMERICA Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 161, 13 July 1946, Page 4
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