CHILD ATTACKED BY COW
FATAL INJURIES RECEIVED
After being attacked at VVaitotara by a Polled Angus cow, which was apparently guarding an injured by the roadside, a Maori girl, Roberta Kahukaka, aged six, received injuries from which she died in the Patea Pttblic Hospital.
It appears that the cow was one of a mob of cattle driven that way the previous day. When about to cross the Waitotara Bridge the calf jumped over a bank and was followed by the cow, both animals being injured. On the following day six children on their way to school were rushed at by the cow. The little girl who subsequently died was walking ahead of the others and when attacked was badly injured about the lower part of the body. Two other children in the party were also knocked down but wjth the others, subsequently climbed through a fence and reached safety. Their screams attracted the injured child’s parents, who conveyed her to Dr. J. P. Duncan, Waverley, and later to the Patea Hospital, where she died a short time later. The cow and its calf were subsequently destroyed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 65, 19 March 1943, Page 4
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186CHILD ATTACKED BY COW Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 65, 19 March 1943, Page 4
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