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A visitor to the Oamaru Public Gardens yesterday was
amazed to see an elephant "flying around like Dumbo" before it
was put on the back of a truck and taken away.
The elephant, given to the playground by the Oamaru Round
Table in 1981, no longer measured up to New Zealand Safety
Standard codes and the ladder and slide were removed in 2008.
Waitaki District Council property manager Dougall McIntyre,
who reiterated the structure was unsafe, said it had been
removed by Brian de Geest and taken to de Geest
Construction's yard, to see if it could be restored.
