Wider Audience
"The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, Nov. 24. Carrier pigeons have their uses but the real bird with the word is the budgerigar. Peter, a 16-month-oid blue budgerigar owned by Mr J. W. Farquhar, of Manurewa, is winging his way around the district saying “Vote Labour. Vote Labour. Yabadabadoo.” Until last Thursday Peter was content to sit in his cage or walk about the jug bar of the Bellbird Hotel at Manurewa, where his owner is employed as
a barman, and talk to the patrons. Perhaps he thought he should be talking to a wider audience in the last week of the election campaign or perhaps he was lured away by a National Party supporter. One minute he was walking around the bar and the next he followed somebody outside and took off.
Hotel patrons think Peter will return home when he has finished his electioneering probably by asking somebody street directions.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31226, 25 November 1966, Page 14
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153Wider Audience Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31226, 25 November 1966, Page 14
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