MONKEY ON ROOF TOPS
ESCAPE FROM HOSPITAL A solitary monkey in the path'olOlgi■cal department of the Lo-mlon- Tlo'spital. smitten! with* the Whitsuntide feeling. gave doctors, nurses. df the hospital an exciting Saturday. Left' alone in the laboratory, with the pros'pect *o'f a 1 da® week-end before him, the nionkey 'decided to liven things up by an excursion. He 'removed a broken 1 pane of glass from the* skylight a null escaped! om to the roof. The alarm was raised, and in a short time hundreds of people gathered in* the street to watch liis amities. Nobody in the crowd wanted' to lay hand's on the nroniicey for fear that he knight have been inoculated with some | deadly disease gorilla and that a bite might necessitate spending ‘Whitsuntide in the hospital. The police finialily set all fears at refst by getting i*n. touch, with the Superintendent of the labolratory, Who asjS'urod them that the .monkey was perfectly harmless. At 10* o’clock the little l animal had established! himself in the trees in »a cemetery at the tear of the synagogue, and there spent the night.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 July 1930, Page 7
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184MONKEY ON ROOF TOPS Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 July 1930, Page 7
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