MONSTER OF LOCH NESS WAS SEEN ON GOOD FRIDAY

Wanganui Chronicle, 6 May 1947, Page 5

MONSTER OF LOCH NESS WAS SEEN ON GOOD FRIDAY

(Special N.Z.P.A. Correspondent) Recd. 4.45 p.m. London, May 5 Standing" Orders were suspended by the Inverness County Council while the county clerk (Mr. J. W. McKiilop) described how he saw the Loch Ness monster on Good Friday. Mr. McKiilop said he had been sceptical about the presence of the monster, but these doubts were dispelled by what he had seen. “I am firmly convinced there is something, quite abnormal in the depths of the loch,” he said, “ft is capable of extraordinary speed, and it creates a disturbance in the water which suggests it must be of immense proportions.” The Rev. William Graham, another member of the council, said he had also seen the monster on another occasion, and was glad to have Mr. McKillop’s confirmation. “There could be no more trustworthy a witness,” he said. “Nobody would believe me,’’ said Mr. Graham, “They couldn’t even believe me when I said I had seen it from a tea room and not from a hotel.” Yet another clerical member of the council, the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mackinnon, said that he, too, was certain of the existence of the monster, and felt sure that the testimony of the council’s chief executive officer could not be doubted. “There is a creature in the loch despite all the scorn scientific men may pour upon it,” he said. A light-hearted suggestion by another councillor that the monster should be made an honorary member of the council brought a reply from the county clerk that there was no provision for coopting monsters under the Local Government Act.