PREVENTION OF CRUELTY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21088, 13 February 1934, Page 6

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY

♦ I MEETING OF SOCIETY j A meeting o{ the committee of the Canterbury Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held last evening, when Mr A. W. MacGillivray was in the chair. The secretary was instructed to *vnte to all the branches of theT so? ciety m i\ew Zealand concerning the holding of a conference of the junior league branches. J Dehorning was again mentioned, ™ lia the . secretary reported that replies had been received from three members of Parliament in answer to a circular forwarded by the sor-iotv advocating that dehorning be carried out in the calf stage. All three S phes-from the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes), Mrs E T? fhf-^ 1 " favour <* the appeal by A letter was received from Sister ; HoISV f , lhe I ? orth Canterbury Hospital board, enclosing £1 Us - 1S a donation from members of the staff interested in the work. The letter also asked whether anything could be done to regulate the size of birdcages and to prevent trap shooting ao o,mk" a . nCi f sl atement showed that totaTrl *nn b i e p T ed for totalled £OO Is, which would leave a total debit balance of £2lB 14s 7d The report of Mrs A. L. Millington organising secretary of the juffi IfSue, stated that she had visited Marlborough on a tour of the schools and she received courteous recep-' tions everywhere. p