BOAR ATTACKS MOTOR
INCIDENT IN A GORGE. TAURAXGA. January 30. While a. motor-car was in the AI mgorewa Gorge yesterday, on (he Taur-anga-Rotorua Road, a largo wild boar apeared on .the roadside moving in the same direction as the car, and made a vicious attacks with his tusks on tbc motor as it passed. Evidence of the viciousncss of the attack may be seen in a rip three inches long in the froni tyre and bloodstains on (he wheel. Air F. N. Christian, the driver of the car, thinks (hat, the hack wheel went oyer the animal, as there was a distinct hump after the charge. The pig disappeared in flip bush. There was a decrease of three i" cases of infectious and other notifialT' distfafti’s, and of three deaths from siiH> disedfies reported for the week ended noqnhon Monday in the Canterbury and \y4*3p"*Coa.sfc health districts ns compared with the previous week. The eases', which totalled 17. were as fol-lows-.;-!—Canterbury: Rcnrlet fever. 3; tuberculosis, 1; pneumonia, fi; hydatids, 1; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2fcenatrtis, 2. West Const: Rcnrlet fever, 2; diphtheria. 1. Tlmre was three deaths, all in the Canterbury district: Tuberculosis. 2: tetanus. 1.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1931, Page 3
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194BOAR ATTACKS MOTOR Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1931, Page 3
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