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Kōrero: Zoos and aquariums

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

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.