SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14359, 31 October 1908, Page 15

SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

the regular mcciing of the committee 01 the Society (or tlio Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held at tho lion, secretary's office on \\ cdncsdav. Mr W. Ijivin^siouf l . occupying Ijio chair in l.lie abscncc of Mr G. i'ciiuick, who t .',n a;:olofrv for nonatlemlance.

llie usual cori-K|.r,r.dencc and routine matters were disposed of, and the inspectors report dealt witii.

ft was intimated by the. Secretary (Mr 'I. S. Grahaui) that he had sent oui over 40 iioiices to representatives of various reli.u'ious denominalioiw in Dnncdin ii.n<i suburbs, suKgc.-iting lliat the claims of ilio animal world should be brought under the attention of Iheir congregations, lie read a great number cf replies, in wliieh the writers slated that they would be plea-ed to fall in with the suggestion.

The Socrclary drew attention lo a case at Mo>giel, in which a nmn had been charged with cruelly ill-treating a loam of hoi'i-s by working thcin when they wore Bulforin/; from o|;cn sores. The inspector and loea! conslablc, who had examined the animals at lb" lime, bad given evidence, a.s bad also experts, who bad seen the hotv*s some days a'le nvards, and tlie bench had decided lo dismiss Ihe ease.— I'he (ommilloo that tiiider the circ-uniflanece a mnv'Hion hail nnl iippn recordrd.