CHASE AFTER DOG

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1933, Page 7

CHASE AFTER DOG

RANGER AND CONSTABLES. ARMED WITH GUNS IN CAR. STRATFORD, October 7. There were strange scenes in Stratford streets yesterday when officials armed with guns set out in a motorcar to capture and destroy a dog that had become a nuisance in the town owing to viciousness. During last week the. dog, which was without an owner, had bitten five people, including two women .It was not long before the police and borough authorities received complaints, hut as the clog was particularly cunning, he easily evaded the usual modes of capture. An obliging citizen placed himself and liis ear at the disposal of the borough ranger, Mr H. Dixon, and two constables yesterday and the hunt was on. The quarry was sighted in Pembroke Road, but be had no intention of offering himself as a “sitting shot,’’ and the arrival of the car with rifles protruding ready for instant action was the signal for his disappearance ove r fences.

When the car swung into Hamlet Street later, the dog was again sighted. H? was startled into fresh activity and cleared another fence, only to return t.o the street. The car was gaining rapidly on him as he ran down Sevtoii Street. It was there that he made a tactical blunder. Back yards were obviouslv his safeguard,; hut he kent, going and soon ho offered a splendid target and the ranger brought him down with an exnerfc snap shot.