ANIMAL CLINIC IN CITY
■— w DELEGATION TO FINANCE COMMITTEE CO-OPERATION OF- COUNCIL WANTED - With- the view of seeking the operation -of the Christchurch City Council in the establishing of a dogs’ home and clinic in the city, two delegates from the Canterbury branch of the Society for the Prevention of .Cruelty .to Animals will- wait on the finance committee onJuly 12. ing-.0f.-th.e_society a .discus- . sion was opened by Mr A. D. Ford on the shooting of live pigeons by gun:.clubs.'He said that as far as he knew the practice was still being carried on, and he asked if something could not be done about it. . • He was informed by, Mr G. T. Bullock, the secretary of the association, that there was-no clause in the act which specifically covered the shooting of live pigeons. There was a clause to that ■effect, however, in a new Animal Protection Bill which the New Zealand Federation* of the Society? for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals : would endeavour to put, before the House. Penalties of a fine not exceeding £25 and of imprisonment not ex-ceeding-three-months, would-be asked for in respect of the clause should the bill become law. I
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22445, 5 July 1938, Page 5
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