Steer Chased In Dunedin Streets

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30759, 25 May 1965, Page 18

Steer Chased In Dunedin Streets

<New Zealand Press Association'

DUNEDIN, May 24

Freezing workers and Dunedin city traffic department employees were today led a merry chase round Corstorphine by a steer that refused to die.

The steer was to have been killed at the Burnside freezing works this morning but it ran amuck.

The city pound-keeper. Mr F Hawkins, said he and other traffic officers were called at 10.15 a.m. to Lock street where they found the animal in a garden. Because it was foaming at the mouth, the officers were chary about approaching it until a party of five men from the freezing works arrived with dogs and guns. When they did, the steer took off across the St. Clair golf course, through the Corstorphine Rugby ground, along Middleton road, and into Blackhead road. Mr Hawkins dropped out

at Blackhead road as he was getting out of his territory. The traffic officers also gave up the chase about 1 p.m., leaving the freezing workers to pursue the animal, which had been wounded by shots. Tonight the local manager of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company (Mr R. J. S. Murchison )said there was no question of the steer being dangerous. “It was finally caught and is now reposing in a paddock,” he said. “It is .still alive and will be dealt with in the morning.”