IT WAS JUMBO
The picture of the big bullock which brought an Australian and New Zealand record price of £204 at Addington market in 1920, published in “The Press” two weeks ago, interested Mr R. H. T. Cameron, of Waimate, who is a grandson of Mr R. W. Trotter, of Garguston, Kurow, from whose property the monster bullock came.
Mr Cameron, who was brought up on Garguston until he was 17, said the bullock was called Jumbo and was, according to stories he had beard, so quiet that children could ride on his back. He was exhibited in the heavy bullock class at shows and according to accounts was seldom, if ever, beaten. When Jumbo was railed back to Kurow after these excursions, he was let loose on the outskirts of Kurow and allowed to wander 14 miles home by himself.
Mr Cameron thinks that Jumbo’s father was a Mcßride bull from Winchester and he was a very big calf at birth. When the waters back up behind the Aviemore dam on the Waitaki river the homestead block on Garguston will go under water.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30733, 24 April 1965, Page 9
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184IT WAS JUMBO Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30733, 24 April 1965, Page 9
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