VICTIMS OF DELUSIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1934, Page 3

VICTIMS OF DELUSIONS

(To tho Editor) . Sir. In sti'esslul limits siu-I> as those, it is pleasing to. see tiie welfare of the Jewer creation, in tiie siiape of fresh water fish, is not altogether overlooked. Personally I am inclined to the belief that Hie ducks' are not responsible for <ne sudden and mysterious exodus of Ihn fisli from the poods of the Queen's hardens. It the seagulls arc guilty, 1 fancy they must get “on the job’’ in toe early morning hours before our eves are opened to the day’s responsibilities and sunrises ! Vet one would naturally tliinlv that one trained by his profession in the art of close observation would be able to tell a duck from a- shag or a seagull. I have never seen seagulls in or hovering over the Oueen’s Gardens, but I learn to-day on unimpeachable authority that fair-sized squads of them have lately settled on Victory Square. Whilst there is nothing “fishy” about Victory Square to attract these marine visitors there is plenty of mud. and it seems clear that the birds have mistaken this popular nlayground for a portion of liie mudflat at low tide, "’bi'-b .would seem i n indicate that these brainy birds, like humans- are at, times victims of delusion. Now that the season of rain and foot-h ill are hot It r-!". ing the oi'd it is to ho booed 111? ()’-'■-• p-ovcrs will east -i fatherlv eve eve:- the disfni-t'wl mu! sT-'--- sr-t-r- cf Vi-, vrv P-uawi -end pi, mo it in decent-s'-ape for the sports of summer.—T am. WITHOUT PREJUDICE. Nelson, Ist September.