LATE LOCALS
The Rnnanga Bowling Club are sending a three-rink team, to Hokitika on Saturday next to play the local Club. To he run over by the toll length ol a train—engine to guard’s van -is a lemarkable experience wine'll was witnessed tin- other day at the Danticvirko railway station (relates the
“News"). A pigeon which was seeking its sustenance between the metals either failed to notice the approach of the train or ignored it. and to the consternation of the watchers the engine rail over it. They waited until the train had passed expecting to see a mangled body, but the pigeon was intact and calmly going on with its chief occupation in life. Curiosity was evinced as to whether it would repeat the experiment when another train pulled in, tint this time it cleverly sidestepped and dodged a knock-out hv fractions of an inch. Alter its exploits it then calmly ascended the station platform, walking in and out among the people as if dodging death was a matter of the utmost unconcern to it.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1925, Page 3
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176LATE LOCALS Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1925, Page 3
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