WOMAN’S CURSE
CONCERNED OVER PIGEONS LORD MAYOR SUFFERS The Lord Mayor of Lo#iJoa, Sir Charles Batho, revealed at the hveu dinner given in his honour by the Farriers’ Company at the Carpenters Hall that he had received a large number of abusive and anonymous letters concerning the fate of the 2,000 city pigeons condemned to destruction to lessen the number of those birds. He said: — The Lord Mayor’s office is a very varied one. I have been getting ia TO trouble recently because of those wretched pigeons. I have received many anonymous letters on the subject. In fact, I should not care to here to-night what the gist of cne *** Thank God it was not from one of our sex! It was from a so-callsd lad? who prayed that those who were about to destroy the birds would drep do** 3 dead every time they touched one-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 12
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147WOMAN’S CURSE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 12
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