More Info →Beached Whale, Foxton Beach

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Inscription on reverse reads: “Stranded whale Foxton Beach 21.7.13 Note boys sliding on ribs – their mothers couldn’t get the smell out of their clothes and they required numerous baths. Note also woman on right with handkerchief to her nose. Negative at Palmerston North Public Library. Presented by Joan Rankin”

A number of people examine a stranded whale on Foxton Beach, 1.7.1913. Four boys have climbed onto the remains of the whale, and according to a note on the reverse of the photograph; “Their mothers couldn’t get the smell out of their clothes and they required numerous baths.”

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”

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