ALL NARKS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 March 1934, Page 8

ALL NARKS.

TRIALS OP MODERN NOAH. Robert Newman, hairdresser, of the Nieuw Zeeland, was full of respect for the late Mr Noah when he arrived in’ Sydney a week ago by the liner, having supervised a shipment of animals, including two elephants. To get them on board took two hours of considerable exertion. By the time the elephants were ashore his respect had considerably increased. Shortly after noon on the date of arrival the fun began. Coaxed Ito the gangway after 10 minutes of patient effort with fruit and banana leaves, the smaller of the elephants caught a whiff of a wharflabourer’s lunch and made a dash for it. The wharfie just got to his bag in time and the animal let out an angry bellow. The wharf-labourers had eaten th*ur lunch by the time the other was ready, and all efforts to coax her ashore failed. Fruit, leaves, kind and other words, in Dutcty, Australian and Javanese, were showered on her without avail. Stout ropes were attached to her forelegs, and there followed a terrific tug-of-war. Twelve Javanese bent to the ropes in a vain effort to pull ■•he animal backwards down the gangway. Then a dozen wharf-labourers sacrificed their smoko to give a hand. Amid shouts of “She moves!” the animal, still protesting, was dragged, inches at a time,. to the wharf below, after a pantomime of 40 minutes. PYTHON DRINKS. Thirty-two feet of dead python was another problem on the way down. It had to be consigned to the deep. A second python, 24ft, long, arrived for- the Sydney Zoo. It fed on two chickens at Singapore before embarking, and Newman says that it will have its next feed in its new home. It spent most of the trip in sleep. Newman gave it a drink daily. He trickled water over any part, and the reptile would wake' up and push up its mouth. One passenger asked permission to go as a rajah, mounted on an elephant, to the fancy dress ball, but the captain thought of the dancers’ toes.