SAVAGE STALLION
ATTACK ON MAN
EXTENSIVE INJURIES
(By Telajrrapli—l'ress Association.)
AUCKLAND, November 16.
Savagely attacked by a draught stallion while working on his brother's farm at Nukuhou North, a middle-aged man, Harold Holmes, single, suffered extensh'e injuries to the body and one leg.
Holmes had entered a paddock. to catch another horse, when the stallion viciously rushed at him, biting him on the body and one leg. He was thrown to the ground and the horse reared on its hind legs, bringing its hoofs down on the prostrate man. Holmes received injuries to the chest and back and three of his ribs were fractured. To evade further attacks the injured man crawled down a bank into a ditch where he remained in safely until the stallion moved away to another part of the paddock. HOlmes then crawled back to the farmhouse some distance away, and'was later brought into Opotiki for medical treatment.
Although the extent of his internal injuries is not yet known, Holmes's condition was reported to be not serious tpnight. ' '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1936, Page 5
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172SAVAGE STALLION Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1936, Page 5
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