TRAFFIC IN HORSES.
FOR BELGIAN BUTCHERS. A contract to supply 25,000 horses yearly for consumption on the Continent baa been catered into by a firm in Saskatchewan. The horses used arc prairie horses. A Belgian firm has undertaken to receive a minimum of 35,000 horses yearly all ready dressed for the Continental butcher. "Scrub" horses will be eliminated in a similar way. This was the gubstanoe of a report and protest from the Eegina Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals submitted at last night's -meeting of the Canterbury Society. The Saskatchewan Society admitted -that there were too many borse?, knowy as '•bronchos,'' in British Columbia, but advocated that they should be shot on the spot instead of being exploited for commercial gain. 'Several members of the Christchurch Society expressed their surprise at the infar- " vi, and it* meeting decided to support the protest.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18968, 5 April 1927, Page 12
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