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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 53, 26 November 1928, Page 14

An elephant is always credited with being one of the most sagacious animals and an accident at Bluff the other day gave some residents there good reason to believe this (states the “Southland Times”). While its parent was engaged in pushing a truck a young elephant wandered into a section behind a store. It ate the grass voraciously and then looked for more solid food. This forthcoming in the form of a loaf of bread at least three weeks old. Tho elephant tried to bite it, but the attempt was unsuccessful. Jumbo then employed his tusks in an endeavour to rub pieces off the loaf. When this failed the elephant was clever enough to put the bread on the ground and stamp on it with a massive foot. The loaf at last yielded to treatment, and the pieces were soon transferred to the animals mouth by means of its trunk. Field-Marshal Birdwood, who Is a natron of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Choir, has writtc- to the secretary of the local association thanking him for copies of the programmes of the first and second concerts of the choir this season (says the “Star”). Writing from Simla, India, the FieldMarshal states; “I am especially grateful for the kind ought which prompted yc.i in sending these, for they show that you realise I still have my old comrades in mind. Please give my kind remembrances and regards to any old comrades who are members of tho Returned Soldiers’ Choir."