KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.
A COUNTRY DETERRENT. {special to "this press.") DUNEDIN, July 4. "In country districts, whore almost all tho children arc engaged in trapping rabbits, it is rather a difficult matter to teach kindness to animals," etated the teacher of the Inch Valley School in a letter to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animale. He. added that the- animal that the town child would value as a pet was to the average country child a. pest to ba got rid of, and so the habit of killing was formed.
At a meeting of the committee of the Society the letter was considered. Tho chairman (Sir George Fenwick) said he had never had that aspect, of the matter presented to him beforo. The killing of rabbits 'must have, an effect upon children, cud the killing of small birds must also have a baa effect, yet how were they going to get over it?
Miss Poi-teous remarked that in regard to the killing of spaxrows, it w:ls done just t-ecaus© there" were a few. pence involved. She did not thinJc children should be encouraged in killing.
The Rev. W. Saunders said that it had to bo put down to our ancestral tendencies. The letter was received.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17807, 5 July 1923, Page 8
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