Old Salts Say Albatross Is First They Have Seen On Waitemata Harbour
AUCKLAND. Sept. IS, <PA). A young albatross seen swimming in the harbour near Princes Wharf today was described by Auckland's "old salts" as "the first albatross they had ever seen on Waitemata." Local seamen and retired sailors along the waterfront, some with 40 and more years experience, said they had never seen one in so far before.
For nearly an hour the young albatioss, which had a 10ft. wingspread, swam and ran over the water in full view of those on the wharves and on nearby ships before making off upharbour. Seamen from the Hororata berthed at Princes Wharf threw the bird scraps of food which it eagerly gobbled. J
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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 September 1950, Page 6
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