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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 29, 28 October 1937, Page 15

They say elephants never forget, This is a tald of the loire inspired in the bosom of the female of the species by the mightiest bull ever to come out of the Addo Bu'sk of Africa. He stands now with. trunk upraised and ears forward, towering above the animals in the Durban Museum — a memorial to the devotion of his wives. But once he roamed the Addo Bush, a magnificent specimen, carefree and happy in the choice of his companions. Then pccurred the first of a chain of events leading to his tragie end. Water began to run short, and the elephants were driven further and further afield for supplies. They began visiting neighbouring farms for the water in the daws, and, lured by succulent crops, trampled fences. A trap gun was eet by one farmer, and this old bull, the pride of the herd, passed that way and fell badly injared. Madly he tore his way through the bush to the most inaceessible part and lay down. It was then that the cows of the herd rose to magnificent heights of devotion. Water was miles away, br* every day for ten days they carried it in their trunks to ease the torments of the dying bull. At the commissiou appointed to investigate conditions ln the roserve, uative witnesses told of the devotion of the eoirfu