BOAR ATTACKS BOAT
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Swims Out Into Labe Taupo KILLED BY FISHERMAN
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Telegraph-
PALMERSTON N., Last Night. Au t extraordinary fishing story in which the central figure is not an outsize in fish but a wild boar is told by a Palmerston North fishermau ns having been experienced by Mr. Jack Power, a New Plymouth hotelkeeger, at Lake Taupo at Easter. Mr. Power was fishing close in on the western side of the lake when n wild boar came out of the bush, swarn out and attacked the side of the launch, which was in shallow water. Mr. Power killed the boar, and, realising that without the cprcase anyone would pxobably regard his story as jnst another of the fishing kind, he towed it in witbhim to convince the nnbelievers.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 64, 2 April 1937, Page 5
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