During the course of a year many strange things are cast up on the Oreti Beach, but probably the strangest of all flotsam came ashore recently in the form of a dead elephant—not a sea elephant, but a geniune elephant with trunk and all. The carcass was lying on the sands in the vicinity of the wreck of the old Hindoo, and a local fisherman who saw the elephant states that it probably formed part of a travelling circus, and, taking ill at sea. was shot and dumped overboard. The tide has since reclaimed the carcase.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3958, 21 January 1930, Page 67
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