THE JUNIOR LEAGUE.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19663, 24 August 1935, Page 16 (Supplement)

THE JUNIOR LEAGUE.

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

“Do That Kind Act To-day.”

Dear Boys and Girls, On Saturday evening', Mr R. S. Falla, or Auckland Museum, gave a most interesting lecture In Hamilton on New Zealand wild birds, he showod beautirul coloured lantern slides or the kiwi, tui, bellbird, wood pigeon, pukeko and others. Mr Falla went to the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson to study bird life and has promised to give another lecture In Hamilton later to help the S.P.C.A. when I hope all Junior members will attend—there will be tickets to sell and we ought to get a large hall tilled. , A member of the R.S.P.C.A. tells this story of a robin; — “I have a tame robin. He began it by joining me at breakrast In the garden one morning this summer. He was very young then, still in the fluffy stage. Our friendship soon developed and he appeared regularly at windows, and on the seats in the garden. •'After a Tew weeks his appearances suddenly ceased and I began to fear that he had fallen by the way. One morning he reappeared in a corner of the garden where I seldom sit. I found it was his beat and

that his claim had been carerully staked out, and I could not persuade him to go beyond what was evidently his boundary. “One day I was on a seat some Afty yards from his heat but in full view of it. To my surprise, he Joined me and was feeding peacefuliy out of my hand, when he suddenly stopped dead and cocked his ears. He toad evidently sensed the approach of the lawful tenant of the beat on which he was trespassing, and he soon Aew away. The rightrul tenant appeared out of a big bush Just behind me, looking very indignant and clearly convinced that I was an accessory to the ract. The following day I was on that seat again, and soon saw and heard my friend on an exposed twig on the extreme edge of his beat. He was evidently calling me to go to him, as he was not disposed to incur again any risk in coming to me. Of course I had to obey him. I wonder who it is that decides these boundaries, which are so carerully observed, and how it is done without maps.” Well cheerio all my gallant S.P.C.A.’s, TINKER BELL.