Cruelty To Animals
Sir,—An editorial in the “New Zealand Farmer" advising farmers to pay attention to a court warning and give more thought to humane methods of docking their stock resulted from a charge of cruelty to an animal brought by the Waikato S.P.C.A. against a Morrinsville farmer. Although the charge was dismissed by the Court, the judgment added that “it had not held that an operation such as took place must automatically be said to be reasonable or necessary merely because some increase in efficiency and husbandry was established." Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, in a speech in the House of Lords, stated that English law is inadequate to protect animals from pain and suffering. The Waikato case has shown conclusively that Lord Dowding’s criticism is also true in New Zealand. The law is out of date, inadequate, and riddled with loopholes, and the Government must be asked to appoint an independent commission to advise on redrafting the Act.—Yours, etc., R. J. GLEN. August 19, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31763, 21 August 1968, Page 12
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