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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1930, Page 2

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TRAGEDY IN ZOO __ » TIGER ATTACKS BOY. LOS ANGELES, September 4. Alfred Hill, aged 12, and three venuresome playmates climbed a twelve-, foot fence to enter the Zoo jungle where hey planned to take make-believe movies of various wild beasts. Alfred was creeping along, hunter fashion, when a tiger leaned upon him. He' struggled manfully, stabbing the animal with nocketknife . he carried, and was rescued by his companion., Fred Marvin, the only one of the boys in the gang who carried, a revolver. By curious good luck his first shot pierced the tiger’s brain and. killed him, but Alfred was so badly mauled that lie died.

AMY IN POLITICS. ENTRY NOT POPULAR. LONDON, September 2. During the Bromley by-election, won by the Conservatives, the “Star,” in a leading article, wanted to know what Miss Amy Johnson, who was supporting •the. United Empire party candidate, Mr V. C. Redwood, of Queensland, knew about taxing the food and clothes of the working people. The “Star” said: “We do not object to her touring the country to advertise the newspaper which helped to finance her when she was stranded halfway to Australia, but a grave disservice is done to sport and politics, when she is dragged in in the hope that what Lord Beaverbrook’s pamphlets from tile air failed to do in North Norfolk, Lord Rothermere’s lady from the air will do in Bromley.” CHEMIST’S HOARD. DESERTED BY RELATIVES. PARIS, September 2. Because he seemed poverty-stricken, relatives of a dead chemist in Montpelier renounced their claims to his estate, fearing that they might be called on to foot the cost of the funeral. Government officials searching liis possessions, found 200,000 francs (£1010) stowed away in an old trunk. The relatives will not be allowed to share in this.