STRONGLY ADVISE AGAINST ELEPHANTS STOP BRITISH FARMERS REPORTED TO BE WORRIED ABOUT SPREAD OF ELEPHANTIASIS WHICH HAS PARALYSED AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS STOP TOO VULNERABLE TO INVADING ENEMY IF RELIANCE PLACED ON ELEPHANTS FOR MILITARY PURPOSES STOP ALSO DANGER OF INFECTING PUBLIC SERVICE STOP THIS IS COSTING ME TOO MUCH
FAIRBURN
- Telegram from A.R.D. [Rex] Fairburn to Denis Glover, 15 November 1954, quoted in Lauris Edmonds (ed.), The Letters of A.R.D. Fairburn, Auckland, 1981, p.222
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