ELEPHANT TO RESCUE
HEAVY HAULING TASKS ROUGH ROADS NEGOTIATED ASSISTANCE FOR MOTORISTS [BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL REPORTER] GISBORXE, Thursday The hero of the floods north of Gisborne is an elephant. It is one of the star attractions of a touring circus which has been marooned from time to time during the past few weeks on its journeys down the coast. The circus was preparing to leave Tokomaru Bay for Tolaga Bay, but on the hill which rises from the former settlement there are several bad subsidences in the road, which is also extremely slippery. With the help of the elephant these difficult patches were negotiated with the greatest of ease.
The huge animal was harnessed to lorries and waggons, and, making light of the greasy foothold, he pulled them safety through a road which might easily have become a bog. Private motorists travelling down the coast were also aided by the elephant, as the circus was halted long enough for the animal to do an honourable day's work.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23036, 13 May 1938, Page 8
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