HORSE DIES OF FRIGHT
FEET CAUGHT IN WIRE from Our Oxen Correspondent DARGAVILLE, Sunday. A party of linesmen was working °n a road at Aratapu on Friday afternoon when a horse drawing a trap containing Mrs. G. Stall worthy and J"o children fouled the telephone line laying across the road. The animal oommenced to back away and its hoofs disentangled by the linesmen. However, the horse simply toppled nver on its side in the shafts and died. I he wire was not “alive” and it is presumed that the animal died of fright. When a. foal it had been injured by being entangled in loose wire.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 847, 16 December 1929, Page 11
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