PREVENTION OF CRUELTY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11118, 5 November 1907, Page 2

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY.

A general committee meeting . of the East Coast Prevention of .Cruelty to Animals Society was held inihe Native Land Court room on Saturday. There was a fair attendance of members. Colonel Porter, President, was in the chair. The usual routine business being disposed of Mrs Walker proposed, and Miss Greer seconded, that the pamphlet of draft rules be approved. —Carried. The President proposed, and . Miss Oakley seconded, that Mr Robert Thelwall, the Society's inspector, be alteo appointed secretary, as is usual in the case of other Societies, the President being also authorised .to issue his', warrant' of appointment giving, him the necessary status in dealing with cases of cruelty coming .under his; notice.— Carried. Mrs Walker proposed, and Mrs Porter seconded, that th,e ; regular bi-monthly. meeting' be held on the 'first Wednesday in every alter nate month, the next to be on the 4th December, at 4 p.m. It was resolved jbhat the President should" arrange with the Inspector where the report book should be kept, also to arrange the telephone address and post office box. The following new members were then enrolled : — Mr J. Hunter-Brown (Wairoa), Mrs P. Powdrell (Wairoa), Judge Jones, Mr T. A. Coleman, Mra Coleman, Miss Coleman, Mr A. Trevor Coleman. ,' Mr W. Leslie Coleman, Mr T. Alston Coleman. Mrs J. C. Aickin, Mrs M. Hingston, Mrs McLeod, Mrs H. St. J. Christophers.

The following letter was read from His Excellency the Goverrtoi. re the patronship of the Society by His 1 Excellency and Lady Plunket :— "Sir,— ln reply'to your letter of the 22nd' inst., His Excellency desires me to thank you for the suggestion that has been made, but regrets -that he is unable to accept the position of patron" of the East Coast Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It is the Governor's rule not to give his patronage to societies which are newly formed or which have not been established for at least a year or two, and His Excellency is afraid that he does not see his way to make' an exception in this particular case. There would be no objection, if they wished to do so, renewing their application say in { a year or two's time, when they had been firmly established. I am to add that His Excellency has much sympathy! with such societies, being conscious of .the, amount of good work they are doing in the " colony, and he wishes the East Coast Society for the. Prevention' of Cruelty to Animals every success.— Yours faithfully, H. C. . Waterfield, Private Secretary.'* ' • ' The English society is actively patronise^ _by their Majesties and the 'Royal. Fiumily, and 1 have active branches throughout the whole of the United Kjingdom, numbering many thousands. This concluded the business, and the meeting adjourned till 4th December.