Wild Boar That Turned Out Lively

Press, Volume C, Issue 29511, 12 May 1961, Page 20

Wild Boar That Turned Out Lively

• (New Zealand Preu Association)

WELLINGTON, May 11. After escaping the lethal wrath of Fidel Castro in Cuba, Mr Edward Scott came close to being killed by a wild boar in his native New Zealand—just when he was trying to make a tape recording of a boar hunt. Mr Scott, a radio journalist from Panama, arrived in Lyttelton three weeks ago to visit relatives in New Zealand.

After having been wounded in the leg by a shot fired by Richard Scott, Mr Scott's nineteen-year-old son. the boar broke from a bail by two dogs in bush in the Marlborough Sounds country.

Instead of trying to escape, the enraged animal charged straight at Mr Scott, knocked him to the ground, and attacked him.

Mr Scott lay on his back, kicked the boar on the snout, and by kicking at high speed managed to hold him off until his son, and Peter Archer, the thirteen-year-old son of the owner of the land on which the hunt was tak-

ing place, killed the boar with knives. t The hunt took place last week-end in the bush on the sheep station of Mr Roy H. Archer at Tuna Bay. Tennyson Inlet, Pelorus Sound. At the time the boar attacked, Mr Scott was trying to remove a portable tape recorder from his haversack to record the sound of the infuriated boar and the barking dogs for an American radio feature.