STORM AT COURSING
[from our own correspondent] SYDNEY, Dec. 24 Several inches of a greyhound's tail were cut off and it was badly torn about the chest when it fell with six others in n coursing race. The track was sodden after a thunderstorm. and it is thought that the injured dog came in contact with wire. The storm broke after the third raco. Lightning struck and set fire to an electric light pole on the course. A grandstand almost collapsed upon tho crowd, who had rushed into it. Hugo cracks appeared in the timber.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22615, 31 December 1936, Page 14
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