INJURED DOGS ON STREETS
COUNCIL’S HELP SOUGHT
No 'fewer than between 150 and 200 wounded animals are collected , on'the streets of Christchurch each year,, according to Mr A. O. Ford, chairman of the Canterbury Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, when he addressed the City Council at its last meeting. . Accompanied by the deputy-chair-man, Mr C. R. Russell, he made several small requests, which, replied the Mayor, Mr E. H. Andrews, were so modest that he thought they would be granted. The society at one time had an animal hospital at Burwood, but it had to be closed down because of the war. The difficulty now was how to dispose of the bodies of the injured animals collected in the streets. Mr Russell referred to the number of stray cats collected by the society and said that the use of a council truck was required a to remove them from the society’s clinic. “We are working on the limit of our. funds,” said Mr Russell, “and will be glad if you will do something to help us conserve tyres and petrol.” The work indicated, he added, was only a part of the society’s activities.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23918, 9 April 1943, Page 3
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