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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5045, 29 October 1926, Page 2

A fourteen-year-old boy on a farm on the Hurter road had tn experience on Thursday which he is pot deriious of having again (.says the Argu?’). Hq has been in the habit of keeping a number of geese, and the flock found its way to the flooded creek. The boy was concerned because thq stream was running fast and he might lose the little ones. Accordingly, he attempted to persuade the birds, both young and old, to leave the water. An old gander, besides taking strong exception to seeing his charges leaving the water, also took to the boy, securing itself to the back of the boy’s shirt with its beak, and then proceeded to thrash him severely. The lad, who is stated by his employer as being useful on the farm, was severely marke,d across the back by the gander’s wings, and is not likely to forget the incident In his lifetime. I