ALBUM - Wirth`s Circus,Greymouth.1949.

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DescriptionWirth`s Circus,Greymouth.1949.Date of Photo1949Map^[1]ContributorDesmond O’Leary

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Location (city or town)GreymouthOrganisation (eg business)Wirth`s CircusEventWirth`s Circus,Greymouth.1949.

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Date Created16th October 2023CommentsRichard Seaman
Was this one of the circus elephants which got poisoned by tutu?

Heather Newby
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i thought that poisoning was in the 1960`s

Ray Chinn
Unless it happened on other train trips,we at Westport also had that poison to a elephant,a spike was hammered into the side to let the gas escape,about 1954 I think!

Keren Bond
Thank goodness they've banned animal acts

Deb Corich
Thank heavens we no longer ..hardly ever see endangered animals in circuses in NZ ! We have got some enlightenment ,that animals shouldn’t be exploited, ridiculed, and mistreated for commercial gain!

Karl Barkley
Did they come Over the Hill in the Train or were they Shipped into Greymouth Harbour???

R Stuart Nicholson
So sad to see an intelligent social animal doing this.

Tessa Daisy
So sad seeing this elephant.

Gonzalo Andres Vasquez del Rio
Not a nice picture

John Webster
we went there when i was a little kid and one of them bloody monkeys grabbed me and tried to take me away, maybe I looked like one of its kids

Aileen Thornley
I loved it when the Circus came to Greymouth in the late 60’s
At the end they bought out the Shetland pony’s to ride round the ring,but you had to have 10 cents unluckily I didn’t, 10 cents was a lot of money in those days

Jiselle Rider
My mum Jill Glass told us about these circuses. She said they animals looked sad.

Kerry Keating
One of the major circus's was in Greymouth in the mid to late 50s. One of my cousin's was with us when one of the elephants picked him up and put him down again. Talk about scream. Everyone had a good laugh except my cousin.

Ann Salley Jones
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/.../australian-circus-shows... Scroll down this page to see old footage of Wirth's CircusKerry Keating
One of the major circus's was in Greymouth in the mid to late 50s. One of my cousin's was with us when one of the elephants picked him up and put him down again. Talk about scream. Everyone had a good laugh except my cousin.

Aileen Thornley
I loved it when the Circus came to Greymouth in the late 60’s
At the end they bought out the Shetland pony’s to ride round the ring,but you had to have 10 cents unluckily I didn’t, 10 cents was a lot of money in those days

John Webster
we went there when i was a little kid and one of them bloody monkeys grabbed me and tried to take me away, maybe I looked like one of its kids

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