KEEPER SUSTAINS INJURIES.
[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND. Nov. 19. A keeper at the Auckland Zoological Park, Herbert Hunter, reccixed injuries to the head through being knocked down by the new male elephant recently purchased from the Hobart Zoo.
Tho animal, which seems to have missed tho 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 bis trunk, and in falling the keeper struck his head against tho iron edge of tho flooring, receiving a scalp wound that necessitated his removal to hospital and the insertion of five stitches.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 428, 20 November 1930, Page 4
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104KEEPER SUSTAINS INJURIES. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 428, 20 November 1930, Page 4
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