PALMERSTON’S ZOO.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—l noticed in your Friday night’s issue a further letter by Mr Tapp on the above subject. • Apparently he is not taking it “lyon down.” Anyway, ho stated that his first letter was “not a conscientious endeavour to quieten Palmerston North’s wild beasts.” It seems to me the lions omitted to read Mr Tapp’s letter that night for they are still “putting the wind up him.” He goes on to say that, by keeping in a certain radius, a lion’s roar (at night) becomes more terrifying the further one is away in that radius and that the sound seems louder and more terrifying in the open country than in inhabited areas. In fact, people in the Kairanga have heard the roaring distinctly and they are five miles away. Now, both Mr Tapp and myself live in close proximity to where tho lions are kept and I have had_ no cause for complaint. After all is said and done it will come as a great blessing to some people when the lions are finally disposed of.—l am, etc., PERCY E. LYON.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 202, 27 July 1926, Page 2
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185PALMERSTON’S ZOO. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 202, 27 July 1926, Page 2
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