WOUNDED BY WILD BOAR.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 June 1918, Page 6

WOUNDED BY WILD BOAR.

I LAD'S PAINFUL EXPERIENCE PALMERSTON NORTH, June 9. A young man named Logan Atkinson, son of Mr George Atkinson, who resides at top of the Tararua ranges, was injured a few days ago as the result of an encounter with a large wild boar. In company with his younger brother he was engaged in pig hunting. He shot a sow, whose litter he and his brother attempted ito capture i' While so occupied a boar rapidly approached. Logan Atkinson made for a big punga tree and scrambled up it, I but the boar launched himself at the ' trunk of the tree, and after a scries of charges succeeded in hurling it, with its human occupant, down the steep hillside. Young Atkinson scrambled out of the mass of bush in which he was enveloped and started to climb another tree He was not quick enough however, for as he was hauling himself up the boar shot past, and in doing so brought his tusks into play, inflicting a wound 2s deep and Gin. or 7in. long. The injured youlth was eventually brought in to the Palmerston Hospital.