THEFT OF TURKEYS
PRECAUTIONS BY POLICE AND FARMERS LONDON. As Christmas approaches, police and farmers in “ combined operations,” which range from booby-traps to nightly road checks, foiled turkey raiders in Norfolk—Britain’s leading turkey-rearing county—with about 85,000 birds. The precautions included electric fences which would ring a bell in the farmhouse and switch on floodlights when touched, and shotgun guard by some East Anglian breeders. In Lincolnshire police car and motor cycle patrols kept a nightly check on country roads, while in Wales police are keeping guard. Many breeders of the some 838,000 turkeys in Britain have taken out insurance policies against theft.—Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27273, 27 December 1949, Page 2
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