WORK OF THE S.P.C.A.

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 127, 31 May 1935, Page 8

WORK OF THE S.P.C.A.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—With reference to a letter that appeared in "The Post" last week retgarding the; difficulty in obtaining help for an injured dog in Molesworth Street, in common fairness to the S.P.C.A., it should be stated that when the S.P.C.A. office was rung up, the inspector was away at Hutt at the time actually attending to some business for the Tailwaggers. I have at all times, and on many occasions, found the S.P.C.A. inspector most prompt in replying to any urgent call. Today, in reply to my ring about some poor cats that had been poisoned he was up at Kelburn within an hour of receiving my message. Through short-, age of funds he is doing willingly the | work of two men now. The struggle the S.P.C.A. has had to 'keep going these times has not been brought much before the public, but they are the people who have steadily carried on in spite of'all difficulties.

With regard to lost dogs. All dogs over six months are given a registered collar number when the licence has been paid, and the address of any stcay dog found can at once be traced by ringing up the Town Hall, 43-977, and giving the number on the dog's collar, There is no need for overlapping, or any further number registrations.—l am, etc.,

MABEL CHRISTMAS-HARVEY. May 29.

H. Hayward does not agree with "I Wonder" that the financial system has got beyond man's mental capacity. It was made by man and we have men more enlightened than 3000 years ago. The correspondent submits that a wealth, limit, say, of £25,000 for any person would stop the alternation of boom and slump. ' >■."'■