Rotorua police officers tonight found themselves doubling as farmers as they herded horses and pigs off a main highway.
Police were called about 6pm to State Highway 30 south of Rotorua, near the Youth Justice Centre, after reports of two horses wandering on the road.
Senior Constable Regan Framp of
the Rotorua police said staff were called by a member of the public after the horses got out of a nearby farm when a gate was left unlocked.
He said one horse was black and the other dark brown, posing a risk for night-time traffic on the usually busy open road.
"They were wandering all over the road and luckily there was only light traffic because if they had been hit, it could have caused a fatality or serious injury."
