BIRD ON POINT DUTY.
Complaint has been made for some weeks of bad regulation of tram traffic at a main centre in Jepperstown, South Africa. Passengers declared that sometimes undue haste and sometimes annoying delay was made in starting cars. Many passengers were left behind, whilst others were carried beyond their destination. When protests were made, the drivers blamed the conductors, and the conductors blamed the drivers. At last it was found (says the correspondent of the London Daily Mail) that a parrot in a cage hung in the window of a fiat overlooking the busy corner, had acquired, with amazing precision, the language of the conductors. It was able to give the “right-away” and “hold tight” in such a manner that the drivers accepted the words as the signals from the conductors. The parrot was as proficient in the use of Dutch as English. Now the owner has been induced to remove the bird to a safe distance.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1415, 13 October 1923, Page 7
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159BIRD ON POINT DUTY. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1415, 13 October 1923, Page 7
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