PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18544, 3 May 1922, Page 3

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

MEETING OF COMMITTEE. The regular meeting of the committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held at the office of Mr E. S. Wilson, Empire Buildings, yesterday afternoon, there being present Mesdames Edwards, Porteous, Messrs Kilpatrick, Brown, itnd Sligo. Mr Crosby Morris occupied the chair, in the absence of Sir George Fenwick. The Hon. W. Downie Stewart wrote acknowledging the receipt of a letter from the society, enclosing a copy of a letter to his Excellency the Governor-General, urging the prohibition of shooting live birds. The contents were noted and would receive consideration. Noted. Mr H. E. Holland. M.P., writing from Westport on April 15, acknowledged the copy of a letter sent to his Excellency the Governor-General in reference to live pigeon shooting. He was jn full sympathy with the spirit of the society’s letter, and would gladly do whatever he could to end what seemed to him to be a very cruel sport. There were some chapters of Professor Howard Moore’s “The Universal Kinship” which would materially help the intellectual side of the society’s propaganda if they could be put into the hands of the advocates of live pigeon shooting.—Contents noted; Mr Holland to be thanked for drawing attention to the publication mentioned by him. .