CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Evening Star, Issue 22808, 17 November 1937, Page 9

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

SOCIETY for prevention A meeting of the executive of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held yesterday afternoon. The chairman was Mr E. C. Reynolds, and also present were Messrs J. C. Willis, S. P. Leith, W. Cooper, J. R. Dickinson, D. 0. Cameron, J. M. Fraser, J. Gordon, and G. Matheson. ANT AT AT, WELFARE WEEK. » An outline of the support accorded animal welfare week by the pupils of the Broad Bay School was given by the head teacher (Mr A. E. Sutherland), in a letter to the society. Force had been given to the addresses, he wrote, through a study of bird life on Otago Peninsula. In appreciation of the work of the society, Mr Sutherland made a donation towards its funds. To commemorate the week, the Rev. W. A. Hamhlett, of St. Matthew’s Church, advised that he had preached a special sermon to the children. INSPECTOR’S REPORT. The report for October of the inspector (Mr J. J. Hinchcliff) detailed the districts and stock sales he had attended. He had investigated an alleged case of cruetly to an old mare at Otokia in company with Constable Bathgate. The shoulders of the horse were quite free from sores, but it had a very big knee on one of its forelegs. The animal had to drag its leg, and as he considered it unfit for work, the owner was ordered to replace it with another animal. His attention had been drawn to the restricted space in which some birds in a shop were caged, and the lack of perches provided for them. As a result, extra perches were (placed in some of the cages. A case of starving stock at Shag Point had been investigated by him in company with Constable Kelly, of Palmerston. The owner was warned that if no improvement were effected in the feeding of several pigs and two calves he would be prosecuted. A boy had been interviewed for stoning a parrot. The inspector reported that he had visited the owner of a dog in the city with the city ranger in respect to cruelty to a dog, but they were told that the animal had been stolen or had run away a few days previously. At present the country districts badly needed rain, and if it did not come soon there would be a hardship involved on stock. The report was adopted.