BULL RUNS AMOK.
PEDESTRIANS’ ESCAPE DAMAGE TO MOTOR CAR Charging everyone in its way, a three-year-old pedigree Jersey bull caused excitement at Waitara, Taranaki. Before it fell down a 40-foot bank it had damaged a stationary motor car and fought a great battle wih two other bulls. The first to encounter the animal were Messrs T. Taylor -and A. Lash who, at about midnight, were walking down the main thoroughfare when the bull came at them menacingly. They beat a hasty retreat through a fence. Frustrated, the bull rounded up a post office employee on his way to late duty in the telephone exchange and kept the exchange staff prisoners for some time. The animal then charged a small motor car and damaged the mudgtiards before tossing the car into a gutter. Climbing to the top of a cutting outside a fence hounding a paddock in which were two other bulls, the animal fought them fiercely until one of them launched a tremendous attack. Caught off its balance, the Jersey hull crashed on to the bitumen 40 feet below. So severe were its injuries that it had to be destroyed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 87, 23 January 1942, Page 2
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