EAT THE DOG?

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30822, 6 August 1965, Page 17

EAT THE DOG?

(N.Z. Press Association)

AUCKLAND, Aug. 5. The gobbling of a turkey may force the Mount Roskili Borough Council to amend one of its bylaws. At a meeting of the council tonight a letter was received from a resident who complained that she was disturbed by the gobbling of a turkey late at night. She was also disturbed by a dog barking late at night “Every time the dog barks, the turkey gobbles, even late at night,” she said. “I do not know the people who have the dog and the turkey. But we

hoped the turkey would be eaten last Christmas, then we hoped for Easter, but it still gobbles on,” she said. The chief borough health inspector, Mr F. I. Crickett, told the council that although a borough by-law forbade the keeping of roosters, several people were now keeping turkeys. He said: “It seems impossible to persuade owners that a turkey gobbler is a rooster and yet a neighbour becomes as much aware of the gobbling as he would be of a rooster crowing.” A special meeting of the council will be called to amend the by-law to prohibit the keeping of turkey gobblers.