ANIMAL IN BUSH
SAID TO RESEMBLE LION. A report received recently by Constable Davey, who is in charge of the Nabiac police district in New South Wales, stated that a young man named Freeman, employed by Mark Holstein, a settler at Bucca Waulka, while going to work in the bush recently, saw a lion cross a clear patch of ground 100 yards away. Mr Freeman thought at first that the animal was a large dingo, but subsequently he noted that it was much taller than any dog be had seen, that it had a mane around its head and neck, end that when it bounded away it showed a big bunchy knob on its tail. These features convinced Mr Freeman that the animal he saw was a lion. Nothing has been heard of depredations among stock in the district, but colour is given to Mr Freeman’s report by the fact that settlers have reported on sever al occasions that they have seen a lion near Bulliac, which is on the railway line between Taree and Gloucester and not very far from Bucca Waulka.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21987, 23 June 1933, Page 16
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183ANIMAL IN BUSH Otago Daily Times, Issue 21987, 23 June 1933, Page 16
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