Pig seeks owner
The Hornby police ?.-e trying to find the owner of a pig which apparently fell from a truck in Main South Road yesterday morning. The 801 b. pinkish coloured sow (“I think it is what they call a porker.” said Senior-Sergeant A. G. Adcock) was discovered lying dazed in the middle of the road by a woman motorist.
Bv the time she had reported her find to the Hornby police, the animal h?.d regained its senses and made off.
Policemen chased it through the grounds of a motel and two or three gardens until it was cornered in the yard of a property in Montague Street where, after a brief tussle, it was hog-tied.
It is being kept in a freezing works pen.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33433, 15 January 1974, Page 1
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126Pig seeks owner Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33433, 15 January 1974, Page 1
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