A PAID WHISTLER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 801, 23 October 1929, Page 15

A PAID WHISTLER

For fifteen years Mr. Bird has sat in Clayton Square, Liverpool, and whistled for his living. In that city there is a. restriction as to the number of taxis that may be parked in the streets, and to prevent the taximen breaking this rule, and to help them in their work, Mr. Bird sits on an orange box and signals to them by his whistle. Perhaps someone takes a taxi at Central Station. That glides off, and Mr. Bird secs taxi two slip forward to take its place. From his orange box, some distance away in Clayton Square, he whistles to taxi three in the square, which goes forward toreplace two at the station. Then taxi four draws into the square from a corner 50 away, and taxi fiv e goes to the corner. Since the beginning of the war Mr. Bird has whistled for his living in this way. and each taximan pays him a shilling a week. Now, at 62, he has worn out four whistles and sounded about 50,000 blasts. FOR WISE HEADS Word Diamond: 1 — A consonant. 2ln favour of. 3 Visages. 4 A fellowship. 5 Thin. *—Abode of a pig. 7 —The end of No. 6. Answer to last week's word diamond: —S, Cob, Cable, Sobbing, Blind, End, G.