WIRTH’S ELEPHANTS.
Visit to Avon Draws Crowd.
The elephants, after all, were rather disappointing. They didn’t wallow in the Avon, they indulged in no antics, they squirted water over nobody. All of which disappointed many hundreds of small boys who had assembled at the Armagh Street bridge in the hope of all or any of these things. The elephants from Wirth’s Circus, who terminated a parade through the city by visiting the Avon at that point, were content merely to drink—and behave themselves with all the grave decorum of their sombre kind. Still it was an occasion that acted as a magnet to others besides the youth of the city, for there were people of all ages there. Some, knowing that the elephants were to appear, had waited well over an hour, while the procession of the animals through the city brought a large crowd of people that considerably swelled the numbers that had arrived in advance.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20205, 16 January 1934, Page 8
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157WIRTH’S ELEPHANTS. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20205, 16 January 1934, Page 8
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