STARTLING EXPERIENCE
A Christchurch motorist, Mr. G. F. Drury, had an alarming experience whein driving to Christchurch from Brooklands at S p.m. on Sunday. As the car swung round the bends of the road skirting the Styx River a huge bird with long outspread -wings swooped down out of the darkness into the focus of the headlights. At first the bird was thought to be an albatross, but it wasn’t. With a wallop the bird crashed into the slats on the radiator, and a powerful wing hit the right headlamp so as to bend it back to an acute upward angle. The bird was a huge white swan. It is not pleasant to contemplate the results if the bird had hit the windscreen. Mr. Drury handed the bird to the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 12
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