A FEATHERED PLAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 7

A FEATHERED PLAGUE

(FROH ODR OWSI CORREsroKDISNT > . „ SYDNEY, 31st December.: •.:: Itie operation early in the year ot the powers recently granted ."■ to< the "S^" : health authorities, under iy^. t»,V§L--nsist upon property owners or frsees keeping the f acad J of th ir - °^£■«* clean, wdl mean a Mg™"' upon Sydney's homely pigeons, "whose favourite haunts are the G.P 0 the b> tt^T^f building in G^e str<*£ " stiucturea Sydney so far h M wi v6v- ■ m<J much about, the great flock of P'g,eo"f "»«*««£ -actuary -ia its hertand biggest buildings, and which" in! their flights, give a picturesque touch, to" ola Martrn place and other spots,-but-"; like it is now finding "themmmetW of an unhealthy plague; and ' is now about to declare waApSn them. ■ J-he pigeons not only dirty: the facades' and block up spoutings and gutters; but they have: introduced vermin into a num--ber of buildings, and it is.more thanprobable that the Government will be:asked to pass legislation compelling-the ' council to keep all pigeons out of the city. Bat in \vhat manner are pigeons to be aunimarily'expelled? - Efforts to trap tfio birds and even to electrocute them have .failed; poisoned wheat l»as alsp failed. One can now picture organised pigeon drives by the-council: i D -. concert with outraged property owners. It looks^to be a good opportunity-for-those with-a gastronomic nicety ' i'ar': pigeonpie. No , pno owiis: Sydney's '- pigeons. All anyone who wanfe'them -