THE fate of 500 Weymouth pigeons is in the balance . . . and if Coun Arthur Pidgeon has his way their end will be short and swift.

Tomorrow night the council will be asked to spend £115 to employ experts to rid the town of pigeons.

The pigeons have been an ever-increasing nuisance since two of their most favoured roosting spots – Christ Church, in King Street, and premises at the rear of the Guildhall – vanished from the Weymouth scene.

Mr Pidgeon lives near the Guildhall.

“You’ve no idea what a mess they make,” he said. “On washing days housewives are at their wits end.”

The Rector of Weymouth, the Rev M H Garner, said that the birds made the roads dirty and their cooing tended to drown church services.

THE average individual feels very sorry for himself if he had a common or garden boil anywhere on his person. Very painful things, boils!

But how would you feel if you had an absolute crop of them along your back with a big maggot lodged in the middle of each? There would be a quick appeal to the doctor, one may be sure.

Yet that is the sort of thing cattle put up with each yea, and will continue to do so until a nationwide, resolute effort is made to treat every warble in every beast with the official derris dressing.

Every stock owner knows it is compulsory by law to treat all cattle visibly infected with warbles during the period from mid-March to June 30.

The warble fly could be eliminated if everybody did his job properly. The wiping out of warbles would be a great boon to the cattle, would mean more money in the farmers pocket and save the country a lot of leather as well.

ON April 24 a dapper man with a military bearing, small moustache and resounding clear-cut voice, will duck between the ropes and walk to the centre of the ring at the famous Wembley boxing arena.

He is 43-year-old Mr Harold ‘Kim’ Spring, of Ludlow Road, Weymouth – one of three seleted MC’s officiating at the national ABA championship semi-finals and finals.

Mr Spring, undoubtedly the best MC the Weymouth Amateur Boxing Club have ever had, was officially notified this week of his selection for the important occasion – which is to boxing what the FA Cup final is to football.

WEYMOUTH’S eyesore is the High Street section of Chapelhay, which Weymouth Town Council have decided should be cleared as soon as possible.

One scene may appear quaint but the others show how derelict the properties are.

The council have approved to the immediate demolition of unoccupied premises owned by the corporation and decided to have notices served determining the tenancies of council-owned property, which is occupied, to have tenants rehoused and to negotiate to buy two properties not owned by them.

High Street was reduced to its present derelict state in the early days of World War II. Chapelhay was one of the areas hardest hit by German bombing.