TRAINED ANIMAL ACTS.
BILL TO CHECK CRUELTY. | PROGRESS IN THE COMMONS. LONDON, March 25. In the House of Commons General R. B. Colvin, Conservative member for Epping, in moving the second rendingof the Performing Animals Prohibition Bill, said it was not intended to prohibit performances, but to prevent cruelty. Performances by apes and chimpanzees, which easily lost self-control, should be prohibited, while lions, tigers and hyenas should be placed under a special committee of supervision. ; Mr. J. O'Grady, Labour member for Leeds, in moving the rejection of the Bill, asked why steeplechasing and coursing should not be equally prohibited. The Bill was due to prejudice, and would destroy an industry worth at least a million and a half. Other members put the showmen's point of view denying cruelty on the part of animal trainers, but the Bill was read a second time by 169 votes to 35.—(A. and N.Z. Crble.) j
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 73, 26 March 1923, Page 5
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