SAVAGE ROOSTER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 425, 6 August 1928, Page 13

SAVAGE ROOSTER

FOURTH EDITION

ATTACK ON CHILD injuries near the eyes STRANGE HAPPENING AT ORAKEI An extraordinary' story of a large rooster’s savage attack on a little boy at Orakei yesterday is told by a SUN correspondent. The rooster flew in the boy’s face, inflicting nasty gashes with its spurs on the face and forehead. Only by the greatest of good fortune the child’s eyes were not injured. Mrs. A. Craig, of "S Seymour Street, Ponsonby, spent the week-end at Orakei with her two little children, one a boy of four and the other still younger. Yesterday afternoon the children were on the beach at Orakei, near the new embankment. gathering shells. Mrs. Craig was sitting on the bank, watching them. Suddenly a large rooster appeared from nearby and flew at the little boy. Springing into the air, the bird gashed the boy over the left eye and underneath the right eye.

The child’s cries attracted Mrs. Craig, who ran to the rescue of her bey. As she approached to drive the rooster away it turned and attacked her, flying at her several times. Mrs. Craig fought the rooster with her handgbag, eventually driving it away from the children. The injured child was taken to a doctor, who dressed the wounds. Today the hoy’s head is bandaged, but no serious damage has been done. Mrs. Craig thinks that the rooster should fee destroyed. Her boy had a very narrow escape from having his eyes seriously injured.