CORONER, FISH HOOKS AND DOGS.
A CHARGE OF CRUELTY. Cb* tblkodaph.— t-iiks<3 association.] AUCKLAND, 20lh December. The City Coroner, Mr. Thomas Oresham, was called upon in the Police Court to-day to answtr an accusation by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals— for whom Mr. Brookfield appeared—of having cruelly ill-treated ?. dog on the BMi inst. by booking it with a lislihook. Defendant requested an adjournment. Mr. Mays said he understood Mr. Grcsham was desirious of making a test caso. Mr. Brookfield insisted that the particular variety of angling accredited to Mr. Gresham in the information must ho discontinued, test or uo te&t. The society existed to protect animals, and the hooks in question were put in a fence lo capture dogs. The? weie not gointr to allow that sort of tiling to continue if they could help it. An adjournment was mado till 13th January.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 150, 21 December 1907, Page 7
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