ELEPHANTS AHEAD
SCENE IN COMMERCE STREET J TRAFFIC STREAM HELD UP ' - V Motorists rubbed their eyes., pedestrians stared, children,.screamed Withy delight, as a party of lumbering easy-going (elephants, from the visiting circus, set off to see the town and explore the lower reaches ol Pohaturoa Rock. The time was just: about 5.15 p.m. and the interested crowd which had been watching the huge animals feed were delighted to see three of them, by mutual consent move off up the Strand, com--pletely unattended. There were a considerable number of cars on the road, and the Rotorua bus driver, v applied his'' brakes with a broad smite as an inquisitive trunk sniffed at the radiator. What promised to have been an interesting sidelight on the afterneon's proceedings was suddenly cut y short, when Mrs Perry, the veteran trouper of the road d'scovered the absence of her pets, and sent attendants post haste to collect them.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 72, 9 October 1939, Page 4
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153ELEPHANTS AHEAD Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 72, 9 October 1939, Page 4
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