THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS ACT.
To the Editor of the Marlborough Express. Sib, —Are you aware that a petition is going round in a very secret manner, praying for the abolition of the Protection of Animals Act, 1867, so far as this province is concerned. Now, on the grounds that it is a commencement of a system of game laws, I would urge that every one to whom the petition is presented, should sign it. We need no perpetuation of the cursed system in vogue at home, out in these colonies. In my opinion, the old Protection of Animals Act, which was superseded by the one in question, was all that was really required. Why there is any attempt at secresy, I cannot guess, if this be the object sought to be attained. As the person said to be most prominently engaged in the matter is, or lately was, a dealer in wild fowl, it is possible that a less disinterested motive is at the bottom of the movement.—Yours, &c., Blenheim, May Ist, 1868. Cox Bono.
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Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 115, 2 May 1868, Page 5
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