WILD PIG HUNTING.

Otago Witness, Issue 3353, 19 June 1918, Page 26

WILD PIG HUNTING.

CHARGED BY a BOAR.

BOY SEVERELY GASHED. (Feom Oub Own Correspondent.) PALMERSTON NORTH, June 9. Wild boar hunting in the Tararua ranges is generally exciting, but a young man named Logan Atkinson, son of Mr Geo. Atkinson, who resides at the top of the ranges, had rather more than the usual excitement a few days ago. In company with a younger brother he set out on a pig-hunting expedition, and managed to shoot a sow, which had a litter. The boys then went off to catch the young pigs, and while so occupied were alarmed by the rapid approach of a large boar, which was no doubt attracted by the vigorous squeals of the young pigs. Logan Atkinson made for a big punga tree, and scrambled up, but the boar launched himself at the trunk of the tree, and after a series of charges, succeeded in hurling it with its human occupant down the steep hillside. Young Atkinson scrambled out of the mass of bush in which he was enveloped and started to climb another tree. He was not quick enough, however, for, as he was hauling himself up, the boar shot past and in doing so inflicted with his tusks a wound two inches deep and six or seven inches long. The injured youth was brought to the Palmcrston Hospital, where ho is now receiving attention.