Dogs Rounded Up After Woman Owner’s Arrest

Press, Volume C, Issue 29435, 10 February 1961, Page 18

Dogs Rounded Up After Woman Owner’s Arrest

(New Zealand Press Association)

'AUCKLAND, Feb. 9. Thirty dogs and 15 puppies were rounded up by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals yesterday at the Devonport home of Miss Blanche Holloway, after Miss Holloway had been arrested by three policemen and a policewoman and a Court bailiff. Miss Holloway was sentenced in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court on Monday to a month’s imprisonment for contempt of Court in refusing to obey an injunction restraining her from keeping more than three dogs at her home. When the police party arrived at Miss Holloway’s home Sergeant A. Tollich, of Takapuna, a police constable, and

the bailiff broke down one of the two barricaded gates with a sledge hammer. While the policewoman stood in the breach to stop any dogs escaping, Sergeant Tollich and his party entered the property. Miss Holloway was surrounded by about 40 barking and snarling dogs. She was handcuffed and as she was put nn the back of the police car, she called to bystanders: “Look after my dogs. Look after my dogs.” After Miss Holloway had been driven away. Mr F. C Bird and Miss B. Owen, of the SJ’.C.A., rounded up the 15 puppies and their three mothers from various rooms in the house and 27 other dogs from the house, dog runs in the garden, or running about loose. Many of these had to be muzzled before they could be put into the “dog ambulance."