SAVAGE KANGAROO
DOG AND BOY ATTACKED STRUGGLE ON CLIFF EDGE [from our own correspondent] SYDNEY, Feb. 28 A kangaroo at bay attacked Lawrence Myers, aged 14, near his home at Sandy Hollow, and with teeth and claws inflicted serious injuries. But for the help of his elder brother, who drove off the kangaroo, he would probably have been killed. The boy was climbing a mountain near his home when his dog. gave chase to a kangaroo. The boy followed, and found the dog and the kangaroo fighting on a narrow on a cliff-face. The kangaroo seized the dog and hurled it over the cliff, and immediately attacked the boy, who had been watching tlie struggle 20 paces away. Fearful of sharing tlie fate of the dog, the < bov fought grimly nntil his brother'" arrived arid he was able to escape. Later he was treated in hospital for injuries to the arms, 'legs, back and face. A wound in his face near an eye required seven stitches.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23599, 7 March 1940, Page 11
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