SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —As the letter of " Mentor," in your Saturday'* issue may tend to prejudice the interests of the above sooiety, will you allow me to state, in explanation, that the writer is either ignorant of the foots, or is wilfully misrepresenting them. " Mentor " says that "that the society's agents pursued with marked injustice and unreasonable severity." The faots are these. The information was laid by the police, and the greatest indignation was manifested by the bystanders, who were restrained by the police from roughly 'handling tbe lad in oharge, and the opinion was expressed that if the reverend (?) owner had been there, his olothes would have been torn from his back. As to the severity of the sentence, tbe Bsnch expressed tbe opinion that it was a very gross case; and X may add that neither of the Justices was a member of the society. As a proof that the sooiety is unwilling to prosecute, except in oxtreme oases, 1 call attention to the fact that ill the past year 235 warnings were given against 11 convictions.—l am. &c., James Bobtt, Hon. Secretary.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8064, 4 October 1887, Page 3
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