Hunting With The Bow
Sir,—The article on hunting with the bow in this morning's issue makes nasty reading. We hear no comment from the S.P.C.A., from religious bodies. from women's organisations. Let anyone say what they like in favour of the bow and arrow. I consider it a brutal and inhuman way of destroying animals. It is not “as if they were all William Tells; for every creature they kill how many escape wounded? Would these so-called sportsmen like to be shot in the stomach, in the eye, the mouth, or any part of their body and left to die? Bullets are bad enough. I read some time ago of a man near Wellington shooting at an opossum up a tree. He impaled two on the one arrow. They fell to the ground and tried to crawl away. To read of such foul cruelty makes one's flesh creep. How can any country expect to prosper that permits such brutal cruelty to go on?—Yours, etc., DOWN WITH CRUELTY. June 22, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29548, 24 June 1961, Page 3
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