Council Supports Tags For Dog Registrations

Press, Volume C, Issue 29625, 22 September 1961, Page 8

Council Supports Tags For Dog Registrations

The New Zealand Dog Owners’ League told the City Council on Wednesday evening that it intended to approach Parliament to have the Dog Registration Act amended to permit the issue of a metal tag. as an alternative to the present collar and label, on which an owner could have engraved his dog's name and his home address or telephone number. The council supported the proposal in principle, provided local authorities were given the opportunity of approving the kind of tag. disc, or label to be used and the method of securing it to the collar.

Generally, collars had a life of more than one year and owners were reluctant to “break in" a collar every year, said the Chief City Health Inspector (Mr A. P. Millthorpe). The idea had been adopted by the Wellington City Council. On the average, there would be a saving of about Is 6d a collar if tags were used, and time would be saved in the issuing of licences and the storing and numbering of collars surp'us

at the end of the licensing year, Mr Millthorpe said. Considering its supply of dog collars for 1962. the council a'greed that surplus collars should be replated by the Disabled Servicemen's Re-estab-lishment League and that the 900 new collars required to complete the 1962 quota be ordered from the league. Considerable stocks of surplus collars had accumulated and about 3600 could be returned to the league for the removal of the old plates and fixing of 1962 plates at a flat rate of £3 2s 6d a 100. compared with £6 12s 6d to £l2 15s a 100 for new collars, according to size,. Mr Millthorpe said.