CRUEL SPORTS.
STRONG DENUNCIATION
3Y CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT,
LONDON, May 5. There was rt strong denunciation of cruelty under the guise of sport at the monster meeting held under the auspices of the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports. Dean Hereford said: “We must denounce with whole-hearted horror certain aspects of fox hunting which are disgusting and brutalising.” The Archdeacon of Westminster said! that the morbid, desire to destroy Hfe for the sake of sport was an unconscious survival of-the savage age. Coursing, deer hunting, and hare hunting were barbaric. Mr Bernard Shaw, in a letter, stated: “There is dissension in the Royal family. Prince Henry says that every artist should be a sportsman. The Prince of Wales promptly countered, refusing to attend ul hull fight. Certainly the artist who paints a bird in living colours and stalks a rhinoceros with a, ‘movie’ camera is a better sportsman than the malignant idiot who shoots.them and gets photogranhed squatting on the corpse.”
The Bishop of Salisbury stated that, on the whole, .shooting, hunting and fishing did more harm than good.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 May 1927, Page 6
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