INFURIATED HEIFER
DASH THROUGH STREETS _____ i • r PEOPLE KNOCKEjj DOWN SEVERAL NARROW ESCAPES [by telegraph OWN correspondent] CHRISTCH CJRCH, Wednesday A heifer escaped from the Addington saleyards to-day and careered wildly about the city streets. It first appeared in a garage in Oxford Terrace, and later chased two men down Tuam Street toward the centre of the city. Two men were knocked off their, bicycles and another just managed to avoid the heifer. The animal then put one of its feet through the ironworjj, on the side of the Victoria Street bridge and broke its foreleg. Doubly infuriated, it charged a woman who was wheeling a baby in a perambulator. A passing cyclist threw his machine in the heifer's way, but the baby was tipped out of the pram and the mother was knocked down. A man experienced with cattle appeared on the scene and soon ; had the heifer under control. He managed to throw it and it was securely roped, ready to be remove^.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23687, 20 June 1940, Page 8
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