AUCKLAND KEEPER INJURED
ELEPHANT RESENTS NEW FACE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A keeper at the Auckland Zoological Park, Herbert Hunter,' received injuries to bis head to-day through being knocked down by a new male elephant recently purchased from the Hobart zoo. The animal, which seems to have missed the company of the keeper who brought him from Tasmania, apparently resented the intrusion of a new face in his den. He pushed Hunter violently with his trunk and in falling the keeper struck his head against the iron edge of the flooring. He received a scalp wound that necessitated his removal to hospital and the insertion of five stitches.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1930, Page 9
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