CHARGE AGAINST SPARROWS
SUSPECTED OF INCENDIARISM. Dunedin, Dee. 28. thus anybody ever suspected the sparrow as an incendiary! Three or four fires in racecourse stands in recent years have never been traced to definite causes, the stand at Wingatui this year being one of them. The suggestion as to the sparrow arises out of a statement made yesterday at Wingatui by Mr. G. E. Curry, the stipendiary steward. He said that at the Otago Hunt Club’s races, in September, whilst the stand was burning, he saw a man throw a lighted cigarette on the ground, and a sparrow promptly pounce upon it and fly away with the tube in its beak. The sparrow oculd have had no use for the cigarette, except for nestbuilding, and the eaves of stands, in common with other buildings, are favourite nesting places.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1926, Page 11
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138CHARGE AGAINST SPARROWS Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1926, Page 11
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