WHITE ELEPHANT SAYS GOOD-BYE TO LONDON ZOO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18045, 4 January 1927, Page 8

WHITE ELEPHANT SAYS GOOD-BYE TO LONDON ZOO.

(Special to the “ Star.’*) LONDON. November 6. The sacred white (or, more truthfully, pink) elephant left the London Zoo for America yesterday morning. The parting was robbed of its dignity by the behaviour of the attendant elephant—an ordinary slate-coloured companion of the deified beast. At King's Cross station the white elephant was pressed to enter the travelling truck. After enormous pushing he was safely boxed. The second animal was a different matter. Ponderous and continuous dancing made it impossible to clo anything with him. The unhandy and obstinate brute de- ! feated all attempts to get him in the train. As the simplest way out of the trouble the white elephant was taken out of his car and the pair were walked all the way to the docks —some eight miles—and put aboard the s.s. Minnetonka. He is to tour Canada and the United States under the management of Mr Bertram \V. Mills, who has contracted for the elephant and suite for the next twelve months.