A pair of fine, curving tusks eight inches long was shown to a Taranaki Daily News reporter. The tusks were mounted in a lower jawbone of a boar shot recently bv Mr A. Weir, Kent road, in the Tongahoe Valley, inland from Hawera. Mr Weir, who was accompanied by Messrs F. Mills and F. Antill (New Plymouth) and L. Wright (Hawera), made the kill after an exciting’ experience with the beast. It was evidently of a great age, as the molars on one side were worn level with the jaw, while on the other side they were very little higher.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4057, 15 December 1931, Page 34
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