PIG HUNT IN CITY.
SEQUEL TO MOTOR SMASH. j . __ (Special to the "Guardian.") AUCKLAND, November, 2. An exciting pig hunt, in which many small boys and several men. joined, took place in Newton Road at 5.15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, following an accident in which a motor-lorry laden with corrugated iron, plate glass, several drums of benzine and 20 pigs, collided with a telegraph pole at the bottom of the steep incline from Symonds Street.
Iron, glass, benzine drums and pigs were hurled on to the footpath, and the pole was. almost smashed in halves seven feet from the ground. It was hanging at a precarious angle and held by the overhead wires.
The driver had a miraculous escape from injury. . A .woman bystander fainted. .... ''
Nineteen small pigs, squealing loudly, began to run in all directions! One was killed in the accident. When the 19 pigs were recaptured they were accommodated in an adjacent carrier's yard for the night.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 20, 3 November 1933, Page 2
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