Ohakune is a town just below the very popular Turoa skifield. Next to a walk I was about to do I found this memorial stone and info about Mollie, an ill-fated circus elephant who died there in 1957, aged 13, poisoned by eating the plant Tutu. 😿

Stone in memory of Mollie the elephant at Ohakune.
Iinfo sign: in memory of Mollie the elephant at Ohakune.