ATTACKED BY LIONESS.
INCIDENT AT GISBORNE. FATHER AND SON INJURED. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. GISBORNE, Oct. 30. At the show ground yesterday, whilst a three-year-old boy was standing at the barrier watching a lion’s cage, a lioness shot out a paw and caught the child on the neck. - The boy’s father threw his hands round the child’s heck, and the lioness shot the other paw, inflicting wounds on the man’s two hands. The child sustained a deep cut in the neck. Both father and son were sent to hospital.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 October 1924, Page 5
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89ATTACKED BY LIONESS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 October 1924, Page 5
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