A WOMAN DROVER

Southland Times, Issue 19277, 23 June 1924, Page 3

A WOMAN DROVER

EXCITING EXPERIENCES. A recent telegram from Darwin states that Elsie Bohning, a woman drover, has arrived at Alice Springs, Northern Australia, after a dramatic experience with 400 head of cattle and a flock of goats, bound from Helen Springs Station for Oodnadatta, a distance of about 800 miles. Passing through poison country south of Wycliffe Well, the whole mob became affected. Some died peacefully, some groaned with pain, while others raced around roaring and staggering like drunken men. The bullocks went mad. The drovers, including the lady, held the mob together all night, and in the morning 70 head of cattle were dead. One fat bullock was allowed, as an experiment, to eat fuchsia bush. It died in one day, and the drovers are satisfied that the fuchsia bush is the cause of the trouble.