PARACHUTIST AND BULL
A NARROW ESCAPE. The risks of parachute descents are not all connected with the apparatus, as Pilot-Officer J. S. Fraser discovered when making a descent last week at Motueka. When near the ground he noticed what he thought was a cow in the paddock in which he intended to land. He decided to change his course and side-slipped over the fence, coming to the ground a few feet inside the rails. It was fortunate for him that he did so, for as soon as he touched the ground, the animal, which turned out to be a bull, charged savagely. It could not get through the fence and stood there, snorting at the airman, who lost not a minute in getting himself and his parachute away to safer quarters.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 13, 29 December 1931, Page 11
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