THE sight that greeted an early morning walker and cat on the Mangarino bridge last week.
IT was an unpleasant sight an early morning Te Kūiti walker came upon on the Mangarino St bridge over the Mangaokewa. A recently – and expertly – vacated pig’s skin and head, draped over the rail. The discoverer believes the rest of the pig may have been tipped into the stream, and the skin left for the kids to find on their way to school. She found it about 7am on her Wednesday morning walk. The skin had disappeared by the time King Country News was informed. “That’s the (Mangarino) walkway where you go across to the school from the other side. Not the one down by the bowling green,” the discoverer who didn’t want her name published, said. “Probably one of the older kids might have tipped it into the creek. It’s why it’s there probably, because they have thrown the innards and that into the river. “It’s a young pig from the face of it. It looks like a wild pig with the long snout, not like a domestic pig with the short snout.” Staff at the school had not heard anything about the pig when King Country News called in the afternoon. About three years ago the finder said she came across the remains of a foal that had been cut up down by the river. On October 22 this year King Country News reported the Mangaokewa reserve was closed for two days while a pig carcass dumped in the stream was removed. Overnight camping was banned at the reserve in September because of littering. The reserve remains closed overnight.
