Licensing Offences: An Experiment with Froth
| Author | R. W. Priest |
| Published date | 01 January 1943 |
| Date | 01 January 1943 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X4301600113 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
54
THE
POLICE
JOURNAL
civilian lofts employed must be members of the National
Pigeon Service.
(c)
All pigeons used or intended to be used on message
service must bear intact metal identification rings registered
in the name of the operating owner in the books of the
appropriate Homing Union.
(d)
The
message carrier approved for police use is a standard
pattern Rolloc carrier and ring clip, as at present manu-
factured by Messrs. Frazer &Glass Ltd., of 12 Woodside
Lane, North Finchley, N.12, and supplied for police
purposes in black Bakelite. .
(e) All pigeon messages in the service must bear a plain
language address to facilitate rapid identification should
the message go astray.
4.
The
following records must be maintained:
The
Owner's Log Book.
Monthly Return to Air Ministry.
Message Pads in duplicate.
Conveyance Notes.
Blue Labels (not for liberation).
In conclusion three points of advice: first, if you work out that
you require 50 birds to work a shuttle service, aim at 100. You will lose
birds in training and through other causes, so do not be parsimonious
with your numbers. Secondly, obtain your food ration coupons from
the N.P.S.; and, thirdly, have loft rings of coloured celluloid for easy
handling and identification of your prisoner birds; then, on sending a
message to X, pick up a bird at once, wearing that particular loft ring,
and the basketing they dislike so much becomes unnecessary.
Licensing Offences:
An
Experiment with Froth
By R. W.
PRIEST
Chief
Constable,
Bacup
RECEN TLY an experiment was conducted to test the stability of
evidence which, by virtue of time-honoured practice, has long been
tendered by police officers in prosecutions for offences under section
4 of the Licensing Act, 1921, in respect of the sale, supply, or con-
sumption of intoxicating liquor, otherwise than during permitted hours.
Instinctively, police officers engaged in these cases search for beer
glasses which contain beer, and for glasses which, although regarded as
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