CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Mataura Ensign, 14 February 1916, Page 6

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

TO TUE KDITOE. Sir,—-1 again claim your indulgence to answer i • a correspondent who has wr.itcn -:v r ..lie nau;e of ••( arb n.\" It (■:.■ i' -pondenls would only give their name- I would call upon iliem with a view to inducing ihrui to become [members. Mi, when 1 have on y a nun.' j such as ' v.'.n ; 'i:'o" to guide m • I ean |ou!v >p. dilate v. hcther the writer aspires to :i>r;ah' the givnd old raechcr.-o .el' that nan:' or he taken lor ihit ancient firearm which w is. 1 behove, a species of blunderbuss. 1 have dec (led that it must- he the la: ■ ' . In came it was formidable-looking, m.-o an awlul noise when it went olf, oni war, lairiy hj irmh>- | t'li-"-''. fiieiul "<"ai bine.'' however, for h' ■ aioi, -l in :ho animals, ami 1 am (pule v. uling '•■< an-ept at v >ugg- ■- tams and act on sinh if it will benefit our dumb friends, In ihe first p'aee, my triend is ve:y far wrong when lie states lhat I gave great space or long m-i-ci .' :u wan ten orueltv vii poultry on tin- railways. Neither have I at any lime made any report on -old h'.di's or < lie k'ng hens. These are hcawtilul visions of his own imagination, 'which niiiM he tarty powerful. Regarding mixed cattle in saleyiirds, I admit il" re is much room f< r improvement in this direction, and \v!i be ihitukbg "Carb'.im" for the inlonuation f am do I.;. my he-t io r« niedv tins, rnloitunaieiv I cannot !••• everywliere ; but ••C:t'-hine" eonlil he of «jriut ance io he animals by di'av, ing the attent ion of the po'ice i<) such i asos. I hey \y.ll give :he nuUtcr every alti'lltion. I In lugard I') sheep lining trmked and I not re eu.u.j; food and water, -u most ',.,,,.. i;.;., i< unavoidable and cannot he jelise i a-, cruelty. I admit tl|at tlnre , „.•!• I'Micnc oil- 1 - where there :.|v r.Og j iijence and .Mivr-ii.s-. and I erui onlv je!v en the he!:> ..! no ,;d. is i.o of,, .in evidence to secure a c m cuon m .-iu hj casrs. i My i'irend asks, Whv v. as the m„,w,.'t,ir mu :)i ll.e Core sa ieyards w hen •1 consist. >;cni of horses Irom iho.Nortn was heiu'u M.ldr Probably he was a'-tr-rd'iK' to ill =.■ •■•steel.,, k,nc>'* whom In; U ncrmed of nee.'.ectum. II ■('arhim ' vvilling lo 'e-i':-. he wi',l hud by a i perusal "n< 'he l':i].t»rs lliat ••Mnek j Uiniis" or auyooo w i|u i|j-ir-.Us an:m.ils nM-Hve aiieiiiion. --f am. inc., ]{, V.'. HLHKON. . ! Jlis|,ei'tnr.