An “old identity’’ was recently killed on the railway line between Waimiha and Poro-o-tarao. The old fellow was a peacock that had paraded the railway line in that locality for some years, and, after the fashion of ? Pelorous Jack, accompanied every v passing train. Last week the bird was run over and killed, much to the regret of the railway officials, who feel that they have lost an old friend/
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4542, 21 March 1923, Page 2
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