ANIMALS’ HOME

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25246, 26 July 1947, Page 2

ANIMALS’ HOME

COMPLAINTS OF NOISE TO BE INVESTIGATED An investigation of complaints made about the barking of dogs on the premises of the Animals’ Protection Society home at Graham street, Woolston, is being made by the Christchurch City Council. Reports of this were confirmed by Mr G. D. Griffiths (chairman of the City Council Housing and Town Planning Committee). He said: “We appreciate that this is an organisation which is doing excellent work; but we have had complaints from ratepayers about noise. We do not know how much of this noise actually comes from the dogs in the home.” When asked whether in fact the society’s home was closed, the president (Mr R. D. Martin) replied that he was not prepared to answer that at the present time. To a suggestion that the matter was one of public concern which he should discuss more fullym the society’s interests, he stated: “The public is not concerned at all—individual is.” . Mr Martin declined to answer further questions, saying that he was withholding all information until “negotiations about the future of the home ’ ’ were completed. Animal welfare week will be observed in New Zealand from October 1, and Auckland organisations are conducting -national competitions for school children. Schools have been invited to submit entries on kindness to animals in the form of posters, original one-act plays, and original poems.