SING TO MOON
SEASIDE DONKEYS At 3.30 on f. recent morning Scarborough’s beach donkeys, owned by Mr Thomas Hodgson, of Elmvilleavenue, srere given an early breakfast. It was part of a plan to silence their night-time braying. On the previous day Mr F. S. Appleby, chairman of magistrates, jiad ordered Mr Hodgson to pay a nominal fine of 10s for allowing the anN mals to cause a nuisance. “We realise your difficulty, but the nuisance must stop,” he said. Residents complain that the -donkeys’ brays sounded like sirens and frightened children—though other witnesses from the neighbourhood said they never heard them. Mr Hodgson, whose family has kept donkeys for 100 years, decided that the nightly concert may be due to hunger and romance. For Problem Number One he arranged the 3.30 a.m. meal. Of Problem Number" Two, he, explained that July is the mating season, when donkeys sing to the moon, but that this period is now over.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 34, 7 October 1946, Page 2
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158SING TO MOON Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 34, 7 October 1946, Page 2
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