ANIMAL IN BUSH
SAID TO RESEMBLE LION REPORT BY FARM WORKER A report received Constable Davey, who is in charge of the Nabiao police district in New South Wales, stated that a young man named Free- | man, employed by Mark Holstein, a ! settler at Bucca Waulka, while going | to work in the bush recently, saw a I hon cross a clear patch of ground 100 yards away. Mr. Freeman thought at first that the animal was a large dingo, but subsequently he noted that it was much taller than any dog he had seen, that it had a mane around its head and neck, and that when it bounded away it showed a big bunchy knob on its tail. These features convinced Mr. Freeman that the animal he saw was a lion. Nothing has been heard of depredations among stock in the district, but colour is given to Mr. Freeman's report by the fact that settlers have reported on several occasions that they have seen a lion near Bulliac, which is on the railway line between Taree and Gloucester and not" very far from Bucca Waulka.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21520, 17 June 1933, Page 11
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186ANIMAL IN BUSH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21520, 17 June 1933, Page 11
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