CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1884, Page 2

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

TO THE KDITOB. Sib— With referenoe to the recently formed Wellington branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, perhaps it is not without purpose to suggest that a children's branch should be organised. It should be the chief object to enlist the sympathy of our men and women of the future on the Bide of kindness to dumb creatures. In England, tho children's interest in the S.P.C.A. is Kept up mainly by that exoellent illustrated publication, " The Animal World," and the prizes it giros for essays and stories about nnimp^ by young people. Of couTßo we cannot as yet expect to turn out Buoh a periodical in the oolony, but our branoh of the society might well order a supply of "The Animal World," and endeaTour to make this paper as popular with colonial children as it is with the little ones of England. Prizes also might be offered for literary efforts from the pens of our young people on the subject of animals ; and no means of inducing our children to take a kindly interest in our non-speakinf friends

should be negleotod. If the lesson of kindness to animals bo not inouloated in youth it is Only to be expooted that utilitarian motives alone will prompt the dealings and relationship of the future man or woman with the animal world, and that tho elevating aonse of the duty of tenderncos owed by humanity to all living things will be wanting. I am, ftc, TftANT Chambers.