SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 18, 16 October 1907, Page 3

SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

1^ JiHon i?'v{ 9 r Ing were .received:-; .liipe, J. '.Pollock• J. N. Isaacs, ss. each; Mrs C. Pearce, Miss , Pritchard, Messrs. j H Mentiplay ,C. Gore, ,S. G. Radford, ■ W. C ■ Price, and H. D. ,Ed wards, 2s. 6d each Total to date £3 Ms. Gd. ' . oa - eacll : • .Accounts amounting to "J& were passed for. payment. ■ . .-, ,

. i. he Inspector (Mr. . Williams) reported that he had 'interviewed the authorities at tho Department ot Agriculture with regard to the; docking'of horses' tails and he had been imormed tnat there was no law for the nre- • i-ontion of such a practice, oth'er than the profisions, ot the Police- Offences Act which cov ered'.acts.pf cruelty to animals. : It-was decided to reply to Mr. Cockroft, M.R.C.V.S., of Levin who had raised the question, acexuainting him with the/result of; the Society's enquiries With regard to tho complaint brought before tho previous meeting" of the Society by Jb. Rogers,"of"Kilbirnie, referring to.tho alleged neglect-of the Railway Departmcut in connection with the transport of a dog from Auckland to/ Wellington, it :was reported that the matter was still .under investigation. . A ■ letter .• was received from : the Canterbury Society for-the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals asking that the Society sliould bring before the notico of the Hon. Dr. Pindlay, At-torney-General, the necessity for incorporating in the Animals' Protection Act at present before the' Upper House, "a clause providing for the of pigeoii-shooting and coursing. It "was intimated'that 'the 'Canterbury . Society 'hml been .written to "advising: it that the. Minister had .already promised to consider, thoso , points, and. that, further action, at'this, stage, was. inadvisable. ~ 'The Inspector reported' that he liad dealt with I several cases of cruelty and neglect to horses and'other'animals during the past fortnight, aiid; in each instance'had been successful in bringing about'a "better condition' of things. '-. ' - ; . '■ ' : ' ' ;: ' '■'■ ■ ■■■■ "■■■■;