POP-EYE THE BULL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 75, 16 October 1939, Page 4

POP-EYE THE BULL

A VERY TOUGH ANIMAL

FALLS DOWN HIGH CLIFF

His name is certainly not Ferdinand the Bull. In fact, if he resembles any comic-strip charactcr it is lough Pop-eye, for like that hero he can take it, and nothing daunts him.

The hero is a three-year-old pedigree black polled bull, owned by the Native Department, and kept on the Ngatiawa Block. Ohope Road. On Thursday he fell down the cliff halfway between Qtarawairere Bay and Ohope Beach, hitting the track, bouncing off and landing on the rocks below. The distance is about 1(50 feet but except for bruises and abrasions the bull seemed little the worse for his plunge.

He was, at any rate, livelj 7 enough to alarm a gentleman who was fishing round the point. It is stated that the fisherman received a shock comparable to that which would have come had he hauled up a Üboat on a herring iine, but so would you if a seemingly inaccessible sheif of rock was suddenly invaded by a large bull.

The fisherman notified the Native Department and two high tides later they managed to lure Pop-eye the bull away from his shelf of rocks with the aid of some other cattle. He was wild and in a very nasty temper, so it was not the easiest of tasks to examine him closely, but Mr L. H. Brown, the supervisor, says that apparently he is not seriously injured. He could run away quite well when he was

rescued