MONKEYS IN RIGGING
MANY ANIMALS ESCAPE. A four-days hunt for 25 monkeys which were playing in a ship's rigging was described hy Mr. George Wardle, an official of the Liverpool (England) Zoological Gardens, who returned recently from India with a collection of rarfe birds and animals. Mr. Wardle's collection, which h'e brought to London in the steamer Behar, inclu'ded 500 monkeys, six cobras, four 25ft-*long pythons, storks, craries, flying foxes, vampire bats, antelope and deer. "DuEiug gale in the Mediterranean ^5 of the monkeys got free.' Mr. Wardle said. "They played hide-and seek in the rigging, _ ciimbed down ventilators, and got into the cahins. Offi'c'er's and crew hunted them for four days before they were captured. "A n'uhiber of deer also got lo'ose and walke'd "roUhd 'th'e de'cks, whil'e one
wa£, found in thei' saloqn. "We th'ought our troubles w.ere over wh'e'A we rfeached Londofi^ .but ^ uur 1 motor-iorry "hjirst a tyre on th'e tyiy to Liverpool and went into a ditch.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 549, 5 June 1933, Page 2
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