Pet bull at Ngakawau shot
Own reporter Westport It was the case of the little black bull turning nasty at Ngakawau on Thursday—and as a result, his owner. Mrs Elma Black, was admitted to the Buller Hospital with a leg injury. Her yearling pet, reared since a calf, forgot about being grateful when he got
off a rope in a paddock near the family home. Mrs Black attempted to catch him again, but was butted into a ditch for her trouble — and there she stayed while the bull went berserk. The sight of two heifers in a nearby paddock had apparently upset the little fellcw, and he ended up on
the rampage in the housing block settlement at Ngakawau before being shot dead by Constable L. Maloney. A Buller Hospital spokesman said that Mrs Black had been transferred to the Grey Hospital yesterday, having suffered a broken leg-
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