FRIENDLY GOAT

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 150, 28 June 1933, Page 11

FRIENDLY GOAT

The adventures of a young goat which roamed about the Lyall Bay district. Wellington, on Sunday and Monday until it was claimed by its youthful owner were both varied and amusing. One of its escapades was to board a tramcar, from which it was forcibly ejected by an irate if somewhat cautious conductor. A highly respected Lyall Bay householder wondered if his eves were deceiving him when a !head surmounted by a pair of decent-sized horns suddenly appeared alongside him over the top of a fence, and a shopkeeper found the attentions of the animal so embarrassing that he brought a mop into use and literally swept the unwelcome visitor off the premises. Women and children, and hot a few men, too, 011 seeing the goat ahead of them in the street, found urgent reasons for crossing over to the opposite footpath. No one seemed to want a perfectly healthyyoung animal, whose only fault was its affection for human society; no one, that is to say, except the owner, and he appeared in the best of boyish spirits when seen later leading the goat at the end of a chain.