STILL MISSING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 101, 19 December 1931, Page 6

STILL MISSING

1 POLICE SEARCH FOR 1 SIMBA STILL I FRUITLESS 1 N.Z. MYSTERY HORSE a - i | No success has attended the efforts 1 of the police to trace the New Zea- | land mystery horse, Simba, who disi appeared myatariously from a Sydg ney racing stable last week, says the | Wellington "Post." Six raonths ago § Simba was the central figure in a fj racing sensation, and, although the i horse has never raced in Australia, | it is probably as well known by • § name as any other. H is now feared f| that Simba has been spirited away to s some other State, and that an ati tempt will be made to race him under | some other name. Simba is valued | at £2,000, and had many fine perH formances to his cre«dit. !| The name of Simba was first heard ^ in Australia during the search for another racehorse, Gagoola, who disappeared following sensational back- " ing in a race at Flemington last June. Simba arrived from New Zealand in May, and was late.r sent to a country station for a spell. In August William Calnan, proprietor of a horse float at Randwick, was fined £100 for ; having made a false statement thaf Simba was valued at £150, and Simba's owner (Mr. G. Guest) was fined £20 for having aided in the offence. Mr. Gueet was absent last week when the horse was stolen, and on his return stated that he could throw no light on the horse's disappearance. The police discovered that the door of the stables had been broken down, apparently in the dead of night, but nobody has been able to explain why a • particularly good watch dog quartered at the stables did not raise the alarm. The horse's disappearance was reported at once to the police, and the wireless patrol car was quickly on the sce-ne. The whole locality was thoroughly searched without results, and the police were unable to discov&r whether a horsefloat was used to take Simba away. For more than a week jiow two detectives have been engaged in the — search, but the mystery is still as _ great as ever it was. The other day 'the detectives went as far as to rouse a veterinary surgeon from his bed at 3 a.m. and told him that Mr. Guest had received an anonymous letter informing him that the veterinary surgeon knew the whereabouts of the horse. After very full inquiries the police were satisfied that such was not the case. Since then detectives, armed with a very full description of Simba, have visited various country centres, but on each occasion their trail has been a false one. Simba remains one of the greatest mystery horses Australia has ever known.