UNUSUAL SIGHT,
MUSSELS STREWN BEACH. A SUBMARINE DISTURBANCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) THAMES, Monday. The Thames Star’s correspondent at Whangamata,. on the East Coast, Coromandel Peninsula, advises that an unusual sight was witnessed on the 24th inst., the beach being strewn with large green mussel shells, which were half open, as though they had been cooked.
The sea birds soon picked the shells clean. The type of mussel washed up was essentially of deep sea origin, not the kind usually found on the coast rocks. '
Local opinion favours that this is the aftermath of a submarine disturbance.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17751, 1 July 1929, Page 7
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