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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2646, 15 May 1923, Page 5

Genoa produces £500,000 worth of velvet a year. An Auckland citizen who was passing down Short-land Street the other evening had a narrow escape from being stunned by a plump pheasant, which came hurtling; down from a clear sky. He picked up the bird, which was quite dead, and was pondering over the strange phenomenon, when a somewhat agitated man rushed from a building near-by and claimed the pheasant, explaining that it formed a valuable exhibit in a discussion which even then was taking place among members of the Acclimatisation Society. It transpired that, the secretary had hung the bird's carcase by the legs from the catch of the open window, and while taking it down to exhibit it to members, it had slipped from his grasp and fallen into the street below. The pedestrian passed on his way with an added, sense of the perils of modern city life.