DOG'S TRAFFIC SENSE
ELIND MAN'S GUIDE M/P.'S FASCINATED LONDON, July 0. Bella hold :i group of M.P.s fascinated for hnlf-nn-hour in Now P.ilaco Yard yesterday. Holla is an Alsatian, one of the many trained to load the blind by tho Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Watched intently by the members, including' Col. Mulrhoad, Col. Colville, and Mr. George Lansbury, Bella led her master, Mr. A. Morgan, through Now Palace Yard, across the 1 busy street to St. Margaret's, over to . Parliament Square, back across the ! traffic-laden road, up a flight of stops I and through the Colonnade to tho i members' entrance. With astonishing precision, her black oars pricked, Bella stood with her master at the pavement's edge until tho truffle cased, before loading him safely across. Sin; judges with unfailing accuracy when there is time to cross before tho next car approaches. At. stops she stopped to "warn her master and gave him a gentle, nudge. Mr. Morgan, holding the special harness with one hand, and fondling Bella's ears with the other, told me that she. has guided him for four , years through the streets of Liverpool and along the Mersey docks without
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19135, 2 October 1936, Page 10
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195DOG'S TRAFFIC SENSE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19135, 2 October 1936, Page 10
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