ANGLING FOR DOGS.
PECULIAR AUCKLAND CASE
Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 20
Tho City Coroner, Mr. Thomas Gresham, was called upon in tho Police Court to-day to answer an accusation bv the-Society ..for the 'Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for whom Mr. Brookfield appeared, of having cruolly ill-treated a dog oil tho Bth instant by hooking it with a fishhook. Mr. Gresham requested, through his solicitor, an adjournment. Mr. Mays said ho understood Mr. Gresham was desirous of making it a test case. < Mr. Brookfield insisted that tho particular variety of angling accredited to Mr. Gresham in the information must he discontinued. Test or no test, the Society existed to protect animals, and the hooks in question wore put in a fence to capture dogs. They were not going to allow that sort of thing to continue if. they could help it. An adjournment was made till January 13th.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2069, 21 December 1907, Page 3
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