A Nice Old Lion
AN you imagine a time when there wasn’t a zoo in Wellington or when there were only a few animals there? Once there was only a lion, a beautiful, friendly lion called " King Dick," a king without any subjects. He was born a long time ago in a zoo in South Africa, where he lived for a while till the
zoo sold him to a circus--a very famous one, the Bostock and Wombwell circus, which made tours of the world. This circus decided to visit New Zealand in time to perform at the Christchurch Exhibition in 1906 — King Dick, of course, was with it, and many people came there to see him perform. After a while the circus travelled round New Zealand. and finallv came to
Wellington. It was here that King Dick left the circus. Perhaps he was tired of performing, or perhaps he just decided to retire, for the circus presented him to the City Council of Wellington. The City Council didn’t know what to do with him, they couldn’t keep a lion in the Town Hall, even if it was a performing lion, so they decided to make a zoo for him at Newtown. And there in a cage he spent the rest of his life happily watching the zoo grow around him and the people flocking to see him. . . . At the zoo now there are two lions and three lionesses: all but one bred at the Wellington zoo.-(" Hinemoa," in "Creatures of the Wild, a Chat about Lions," 2Y A, Children’s Hour, October 23.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 74, 22 November 1940, Page 5
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262A Nice Old Lion New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 74, 22 November 1940, Page 5
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