LIVE FISHING BAIT.
IS PRACTICE CRUEL?
CHRiSTCHURCH DEBATE
LIVE BUIXIEO ON HOOKS. (By Telegraph.- — Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, thin day. Whether the use of live bait for fishing is cruelty to the bait wus a question which exercised members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal*. The meeting decided to leave the matter with the clmlriinin with a view to obtaining an opinion from the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society.
The question as to whether live bait was an animal nnd therefore came within the scope of the society's work, was also raised, but it was not put to the vote.
A member, who had been mi angler for 70 years, said the use of bullies was inhuman. They were put on hooks alive. The line whs then cast out into the river and the bullies SbltietltnG.S remained on the river bed for four hours, tf the llshernien did not have luck the bullies Would be swallowed by tlollt. They wore torn oil' the hooks when still alive and were thrown into the river, probably to die a lingering death from starvation with fractured JftWe.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 8
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