PET GEESE TO BE “ BANISHED ”

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28019, 13 July 1956, Page 12

PET GEESE TO BE “ BANISHED ”

Antics in park most UNWELCOME (New Zealand Press Association) - . . HASTINGS, July 12. ck ai Y? a B°°se and gander whose antics at Windsor Park have become well known to Hastings residents. are to be banished because of uieir recent gross misdemeanours. 1 mu r new home will be on a farm. The two birds were particularly POPu* ar with children, but not all children, for recently a boy was caught beating one of them and severely injuring it about the head and wings. Since then, the birds, especially the gander, have been very wary of boys. Over the months, they have developed a habit of seeking out visitors to the park with parcels in their hands in the hope that the parcels contain food. They have also made a habit of calling at the caretaker’s house at Windsor Lodge, pecking at the back door, and in their gabbling way. asking for household titbits. These excursions to the lodge have led to their banishment.

The lodge is used several cays a week as a Plunket creche. Last week. Jack and Jill made a visit to the Plunket rooms and got into mischief. These were some of the things they did:

They ruined the hood of a pram by pecking out pieces of material. T v. ey approached a small child attending a baby in a pram and scared her with their waving beaks. The child started crying and in turn the baby set up a howl. They tested out their beaks on th? side of a parked car and chipped off the paint. They came across a workman’s coat left lying on a nearby seat and pulled off all the buttons. Then they set about some pickpocketing, emptying the pockets of their contents. Besides all this, with the approach of the mating season. Jack and Jill are inclined to be rather “touchy.” As such, they come within the category of nuisances and because of possible claims for damage through their mischief, they are to be found a new home.