ATTACK BY COW
PARTY OF CHILDREN GIRL FATALLY INJURED OTHERS REACH SAFETY (0.C.) WANGANUI, Friday After being attacked by a Polled Angus cow which was guarding an injured call' by the roadside, a Maori girl received injuries from which she died in the Pa tea Hospital. She was Roberta Kahukaka, aged six, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ropata Kahukaka, of Waitotara. One of a mob of cattle driven along the road the previous day, the cow was about to cross the Waitotara bridge, 23 miles north of Wanganui, when its calf jumped over a bank, it was followed by the cow, both animals being injured. On the following day, six children on their way to school were rushed at by the cow. The little girl was walking ahead of her companions and when attacked was badly injured. Two other children in the party were also knocked down but, with the others, climbed through a fence and reached safety. Their screams attracted the injured girl's parents, who conveyed her to a doctor and la ter to the Pa tea Hospital, where she died a short time after. The cow and its calf were subsequently destroyed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24537, 20 March 1943, Page 6
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194ATTACK BY COW New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24537, 20 March 1943, Page 6
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