SEVERAL INJURED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 303, 5 October 1935, Page 7

SEVERAL INJURED

COW SCATTERS BUYERS.

(Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, October 4. Several persons were more or less injured when an Aberdeen Angus cow took a flying leap from the selling ring among the seated buyers, at the Fending stock sale to-day. Those in the line of the cow’s approach quickly cleared, some making for the door and others catching hold of overhead cross-beams, and pulling themselves to security. The cow, impressed by the dangling legs and the crowd at the door, turned in the opposite directon along the seats in its wild career. Losing its footing, it rolled over and over down the tiers to the ring wall, where it regained its feet and made for tile door, through which it dashed carrying a visitor, Mr McCarthy, of New Plymouth. Botli plunged to the yard below—a drop of eight or ten feet. Mr McCarthy crushed a leg in the fall. In the excitement, other buyers were involved in minor accidents. Two elderly farmers on the wall which leads to the entrance of tile pavilion overbalanced into the mudi in a pen full of bullocks. They were quickly rescued. Mr H. Snell, of Palmerston North, suffered a badly bruised leg. Another person injured was Mr G. Watts, ol Feilding, who was knocked down in the pavilion.