PREVENTION OF CRUELTY

Evening Star, Issue 20129, 20 March 1929, Page 2

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY

OTAGO SOCIETY’S MONTHLY MEETING Tin.' Otago Sucieiy Ini’ 11 1*' Preven--1 ion iii (Tucliy in Animals bc’nl its iinmllilv meeting \ c-ici'day a I tci’iioon, Yu- Crosby Morris ichnirman ol the committee) presiding. Tim mailer regarding dog;-. fining on the footboards ol uioVor cars '‘.as leu in 1 lu; hands of (lie inspector to report anv crncUy occurring through curry mg dogs iii that manlier. (‘OR It LISL’OXDF.YCK. Airs IVlcr .lohmon ami family ivrole espressing thanks to the .socictv icir its expression of sympathy in their bereavementßeceived. On holla 1L of herself and lamdy Mi's fanlrcll wrote thanking the commil tee for its expression ol sympalny in the death of Mrs T. S. Graham.--Received, Mr J. W. Korhes (lion. sec. Ilumamiariiin Society ol Yew Zealand) "vote ihat at the recent S.P.C.A. Conic re nee the fullo\tinet resolution was passed m ramiid in vivisection—" I hat in ' 1 '' of'the fact that there was ins evident c Unit vivisection was practised in Ye" Zealand, ami the Police Offences Act was sufficient, to deal with any ease arising, the remit was not liirther discussed. '• There were two mi'-stalc-ments in the resolution, first, that no vivisection is practised in New Zealand, the fact being that it had been pnned to exist in at least one medical school, that ol Dunedin, and in 10-0 Drs Lynch and Watson experimented on monkeys and lorwardcd their report to the Health Department in Wellington. Obviously no one really knew to "hat actual exlent vivisection was practised in Yew Zealand, became operations were, ol course, done behind closed door-:. The second misstatement was that the, 'Police Offences Act was suliicient In deal with any ease arising. There was not. in Yew Zealand any legislative control or regulation ol vivisection. In the interests oi truth, and in view of the importance of the subject, he was directed by the coiiuuitLeo of that society to ask the .societies responsible for the passing of that resolution to lie' good enough to correct publicly Die 'misleading information given in regard to that question.—-1 he secretary was directed to point out that the .society was not represented at the conference, and therefore toot: no responsibility regarding resolutions passed thereat. , . A letter from the Royal Society lor the Prevention of (,'rnelfy to Animals regarding the abuse ol performing animals staled that steps were being taken in Pngland to endeavour fo prohibit animal performers.---Received. Two letters were received regarding the recent act of cruelty to a dog at Mosgiel.—lt was decided to write to tho correspondents .slating that- the case had been brought before i the"court, and the society was disappointed with. Die punishment inflicted, but under flic circumstances it did not think it advisable to take any steps to bare the case reopened. A lady wrote advising the society that, a pack horse at .Miltot’d had been badly attacked by mosquitoes, and had been treated everywhere except the bead. The animal had evidently suffered a good deal, and she would like to see something done. —A copy of this letter would be forwarded to the To nri s t Department. A copy of the minutes to Die recent conference was received and handed ■ round for members of the committee