HORSE'S WILD DASH

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 6

HORSE'S WILD DASH

C11AI! 0 E THK 0 UGH SHOP

SHOCK FOR OCCUPANT

(Uy Telegraph—Press Association.)

I AUCKLAND, June 29. The sight of a horse crashing through a plate-glass window of her shop, and then plunging through into the living-room at the rear to fall mortally injured oa the floor a few feet from her, was the alarming experience of Mrs. L. Coleman, of Great North Road, this morning. The horse, a valuable trotting animal, was subsequently destroyed in the room.

Harnessed to a trotting sulky, the horse, which had been broken in only five -months ago, was being schooled by its owner, Mr. ,T. L. McQuoid, of Western Springs. The. animal became frightened, kicked out, upset the sulky, broke the shafts, and bolted down the road. On reaching an intersection it swerved, but instead of turning the corner made for some shops. It narrowly missed a telephone box, and then crossed the footpath and plunged into the display window of the confectionery shop of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman. It splintered first the plate-glass window and then another pane of glass at the back.

Although the passageway behind the counter is not four feet wide and is fully 15 feet long, the animal charged down this and through an open door into the living-room. There it fell on its Side. The animal was severely cut about the lower part of the body, and blood from its many wounds covered the floor of the room and bespattered the walls and furniture. A veterinary surgeon was immediately summoned and the horse was destroyed. ■

"I was about to, go into the shop, and I was just at the door when I saw the horse crash through the window," scud Mrs. Coleman! ."I received a terrible shock and had just time to move into I;he corner of the livingroom when the animal plunged through the doorway and fell on the floor." , '

Mi?. McQuoid said the horse was a five-year-old which he was preparing for the track. It was by Nelson Bingen from Lady I^atalie.

The..Saxon. Minister of the Interior has disbanded associations of antivaccinationists and ' societies of antivaccinationist doctors, alleging that they attempted to undermine State authority. ■