CARRIER PIGEONS
STEPS TO STOP EXPLOITATION
LONDOhv, November 17.
Steps have bejn taken by the Danish Government to pi event the cruel exploitation of earner pigeons in connection with pigeon racing. Numbers of tnere .-iras, it said, ivceiiJy pem-.ed from exhaustion on long fliglvu, across the. North Sea. As a result of protects by fishermen, police- authorities, and socie.ien for the .prevention of criK.i’ty to animails, the Ministry of vSliiii,oing recently announced that, in future?. Danish steam-e-ris would be pro-/, hi lilted from (lorrying pigeons out to sea- for either racing or training pur-' poses.
By many people interested in the ai)peal to the Government, it is maintained that the so-called sport-of carrier pigeon racing is (lamed to excess for gambling purposis. There is, c-f course, no intention, to interfere with the useful and harmless practice of using, pigeons to eutabli li communication 'between the fishing grounds and tip? villages on the Jutland coast.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1932, Page 3
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