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Elephant ride

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Elephant ride

School children from Tokomaru Bay, on the North Island’s East Coast, enjoy a ride on a female Indian elephant at Wellington Zoo in 1943.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-000847; F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

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Maggy Wassilieff, Zoos and aquariums – Zoo animals and entertainment, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18434/elephant-ride (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.