INFECTED GUINEA PIGS

Evening Star, Issue 25396, 30 January 1945, Page 4

INFECTED GUINEA PIGS

LIBERATED BESIDE AVON

MHY ACCOUNTED FOR Many of the disease-infected guinea pigs stolen from the Christchurch Public Hospital were accounted for on Saturday, reports the 'Star-Sun.' When the bodies of three drowned guinoa pigs came floating down the Avon the police were notified, and detectives searched both, banks, working upstream. Some distance above the hospital, on the same Iside of the river, they were guided by the sound of youthful voices and of dogs barking excitedly. They found several boys and several dogs. The latter had apparently discovered a number of guinea pigs in the long grass mid under the bushes. They had killed several, and some, plunging into the river to escape persecution, had been drowned. Detectives and members of the hospital staff rounded up the survivors and, handling them with care, returned them to their home in what was formerly the Acclimatisation Society's fish hatchery on the river bank behnid the hospital. As a result of further investigations by the detectives, it is expected that several boys will shortly appear before the Children's Court in connection with the liberation of the animals.