DEER-CHASING BY LAUNCH
SWIM IN LYTTELTON HARBOUR (Special to THE SL'S) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. A number of wild animals, birds and fish for the zoos at Auckland, Hastings and Wellington arrived at Lyttelton from Calcutta and Singapore by the Union Company's steamer Waiotapu. One of the deer, about the size of a large goat, escaped from its pen this morning and swam across the harbour toward the Gladstone Pier. A chase began in a motor-launch, but oven the animal had been cornered under the wharf it was some time before it could be taken back to the ship on account of its struggles A heifer being shipped to the Chatham Islands on the steamer Tees f»*ll overboard .shortly afterwards and th**re was another chase before the animal was returned to the ship.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 569, 23 January 1929, Page 1
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131DEER-CHASING BY LAUNCH Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 569, 23 January 1929, Page 1
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