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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4477, 9 October 1922, Page 2

A traveller, recently returned from abroad, has good reason tp know that the cow is held as a sacred animal by the coloured peoples of the East. In conversation with a Dominion representative at Wellington he related how, while he and two friends were promenading at dusk in the market place, or, as it is better known in the East, the bazaar, of a certain town, he had the misfortune to stumble over a protruding cow’s leg. The fall soil ed his white “ducks,” and consequently naturally angered, he immediately demonstrated his resentment by giving the cow a parting kick. That kick almost cost the lives of himself and his friends, however, for the natives who had witnessed the incident roused the neighbourhood, and soon the three white men were hotly pursued by an angry niob. Their legs carried them to safety, however, but in the words of the narrator “It was a close thing!”