EQUINE PENSIONER DIES
SPENT RETIREMENT AT LOGAN PARK Towards the end of 1938 the ‘ Evening Star ’ told the story of a horse which was a beneficiary in the will of a well-known citizen of Dunedin, Air David Wilkie, who left a sum of money for the maintenance of his friend, who had served him faithfully for over 26 years. This story, by the way, was reprinted in certain English newspapers. And now the old horse is dead. He passed away last Friday in the Logan Park district near the paddock in which lie had browsed ever since his master’s death.
The horse was 32 years of age when he died, and he had enjoyed every day of his term of retirement, during which officials of the Public Trust Office and tlie person who looked after him at Logan Park had seen to it that he received every attention and comfort in his declining years. He had roamed around seeking his special cronies in adjacent paddocks, and ruminated over old times in some secluded nook, and it was after having had an equine “ chat ” with a bunch of his pals that he breathed his last. The old horse was well known in the district, and will be missed.
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Evening Star, Issue 24283, 26 August 1942, Page 4
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207EQUINE PENSIONER DIES Evening Star, Issue 24283, 26 August 1942, Page 4
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