ROOSTER ATTACKS CHILD

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 200, 7 August 1928, Page 5

ROOSTER ATTACKS CHILD

INJURIES INFLICTED.

STRANGE STORY FROM AUCR-. LAND. (Special to “Tribune.”! Auckland, Aug. 6. An extraordinary story of a large rooster’s savage attack on a little boy at Orakel yesterday is told by the Auckland “Sun.” The rooster flew in the boy’s face, inflicting nasty gashes with its spurs' on the face and forehead. Only by the greatest of good fortune the child’s eyes were not injured. Mrs A. Craig, of 28 Seymour street, Ponsonby spent the week-end at Orakei with her two little children, one a boy of four and the other still'' younger. Yesterday afternoon the children were on the beach at Orakci, near the new embankment, gathering shells. Mrs Craig was sitting on the bank watching, when suddenly a large rooster appeared from nearby, and flew at the little boy. Springing into the air, the bird gashed the boy over his left eye and underneath the right eye. The child’s cries attracted Mrs Craig, who ran to the rescue of her boy. As she approached to drive the rooster away it turned and attacked her flying at her several times. Mrs Craig fought the rooster with her handbag, eventually driving it way from the children. The injured child was taken to a doctor, who dressed the wounds. To-day the boy's head : s bandaged but no serious damage has been done.