PIGEON SHOOTING MATCHES.
TO THU EDITOIt. Sir —I tlilnk I remember Unit the callous practice at gun club matches ol using live birds as the target has been stronglv condemned by both yoursd) and your morning contemporary, and that you have supported the Bill for its abolition introduced by the Hon. G. MThomson in the Legislative Council May 1 venture to suggest that you should further lend your aid in the endeavour that is being made to render the practice illegal, so that New Zealand may bo placed on the same humane platform in this respect as Great Britain, whoso Parliament has legislated against it. 'Mr Thomson deserves the heartiest support in his efforts to remove this blot from a phase of the community’s legitimate and skilful amusements. —1 am, etc., CnAV Bum. August 22.
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Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 11
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