ATTACKED BY WILD BOAR.
(PEIiSS ASSOCIATION TELIGKASf.) DARGAVILLE, August 14. youth named Elliot , Leach had an unpleasant experience with a wild boarThe animal had been giving a lot of trouble in the neighbourhood of liis father's farm at Mamaranui for some months past. At last the animal came out in-the open, and the youth took a gun to shoot•the pig. He only wounded it, and it charged him, biting off his thumb and tearing his clothes..
A. neighbour luckily noticed Leach's predicament and rushed "to the rescue. He shot the pig dead.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18152, 15 August 1924, Page 11
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