GULL'S UNTIMELY END.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

GULL'S UNTIMELY END.

VILLAGE IN MOURNING. ! Kessingland. the seaside village near j Lowestoft, England, is in mourning for j " Billy " Britain's most sairacious sea- | gall, who has come to an untimely end. j He was beaten to death by a boy of 15. whom the Lowestoft magistrates placed jon probation. J Residents and visitors to Kessingland ! all knew " Billy," who has fed from i thousands of hands. His owner. Mr. j Arthur Gouldby. fntmd him when he was I quite young, eight years ago. and taught | him many t ricks. Every morning at eight. " Billy | knocked at the door with his beak, was ! admitted arid fed on bread and milk. I Then he would collect, twigs in the gnrj den and make a mound on which he | would proudly take his stand. He never ! deviated by a minute in his morning call and if no notice was taken of him on 1 entering he would tug at. the table cloth j until he had attracted attention. I Billy's body has gone to the Royal j Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Anij mals. in London and will take a place m the society's museum.