ESCAPE OF LEOPARD
EXPLANATION DEMANDED STATEMENT BY MINISTER A REPLY NOW AWAITED “We have written to them asking how the leopard got out, but we have not got a reply yet,” said the Hon. R. F. Bollard at Tuakau, in referring to the multifarious duties which fell to his lot as Minister for Internal Affairs. “Unless they give us a satisfactory reply they will not be allowed to bring any more leopards into the country.” Someone mentioned snakes. “Yes,” said the Minister,' “I will not allow snakes in the country. Even if a showman came to travel the Dominion to exhibit snakes, I doubt if I would allow them to land, because one might get out. They say they are harmless, but let them keep those harmless animals in other countries.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19440, 28 October 1925, Page 6
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