BIRD ON POINT DUTY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 6

BIRD ON POINT DUTY

Complaint has been made for some weeks of bad regulation of tram traffic at a main centre in Jeppestown, South Africa. Passenger* declared that sometimes undue haste and sometimes annoying delay was made in starting cars. Many passengers were left behind, whilst others were carried beyond their destination. When protests were made, the drivel's blamed the conductors, and the conductors blamed the drivers. At last it was found (says the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail") that a parrot in a cage hung in the window of a flat overlooking the busy corner, had acquired, with amazing precision, the language of the conductors. It was able to give the "right-away" and "hold tight" in such a. manner that the drivers accepted the words as the signals from the conductors. The parrot was as proficient •in the use of Dutch as English. Now the owner has been induced to remove the bird to a safe distance;