A COMPLICATED ACCIDENT.
••> '» ELEPHANTS CAUSE ALARM. A motor-car full of people, a horse, ;wo elephants and _ a Pomeranian dog ,vere the chief participants in «,n incident it Napier South which might have ended seriously but had its amusing side. As i brewery cart in which wag a draught aorse was passing, the horse caught sight of two circus elephants, and, unaccustomed to seeing such monsters on ihe road, took fright and reared. When it came down it landed on the bonnet jf the motor-car, much to the alarm of ihe occupants, who experienced an additional thrill when the elephants attered shrill shrieks and moved in the direction of the horse, their trunks in the ah'. The situation seemed likely to se complicated when the elephants' trainer promptly called the animals, which obeyed him at once. The Pomeranian turned a complete somersault from ;he caT.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 9
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144A COMPLICATED ACCIDENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 9
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