EXCITING PIG HUNT

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3271, 2 June 1943, Page 5

EXCITING PIG HUNT

END OF “OLD MAN” BOAR VETERAN TWO HOURS AT BAY Bearing scars of many battles with man and dog over a number of years, an “old man” wild boar met his Waterloo off the Te Whareki track, about five miles back, between Waitete and the Waihi borough dam, on Saturday morning, at the hands of Messrs Eric (“Bull”) Radford and William Osborne,' of Waihi, after a fight which lasted two hours and in which the veteran killed two of the huntsmen’s dogs and badly ripped a third.

Eventually brought to bay, the boar, as already stated, sold his life dearly, and an opportunity for the huntsmen to get to close quarters did not present itself for nearly two hours, when Radford was able to seize its hind leg and allow his partner to make the kill, no fewer than eight knife-thrusts being necessary before the animal, which fought hard to the last, received its coup-de-grace. Messrs Radford and Osborne, who stated that the pig must have tipped the scales at round 3001b5., brought the huge head with its worn, razorsharp tusks back to Waihi and intend to have it mounted. They believe’that this boar is the one that has accounted fcr a number of other dogs in the past, and that it has been in other close encounters was borne out by the fact that one ear was missing while little remained of the other, the scars being old ones.