ALSATIANS NOT WANTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18378, 21 April 1934, Page 6

ALSATIANS NOT WANTED

FARMERS’ UNION MOVE THE SHOW SCHEDULE The Poverty Bay provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union to-day decided to recommend the Poverty Bay A. and P. Association to ban Alsatian dogs from the show schedule. The president, Mr. J. E. Benson, referred to injuries received through Alsatian dogs attacking people, and proposed that the union ask the A. and P. Association to follow- the New South Wales lead and ban Alsatian classes from its schedule. Mr. F. S. Bowen: If these brutes get loose among our hills and mountains we will have packs of wild dogs about in no time.

Mr. D. J. Gumming: I went round to Williams and Kettle’s the. other week, and there was a great big hound on (lie door niat. i did not pay my hill that week (Laughter). Mr. Bowen suggested making a heavy dog tax of £5 a year on every Alsatian, and said that such action would help to reduce the numbers of these dogs.

The president’s motion to write to the A. and P. Association recommending the elimination of Alsatian classes from the schedule was carried unanimously.

In view of n recent report circulated throughout the Dominion, Mr. M. B. Griffin Gisborne, wrote to the Canterbury A. and I’. Association asking if it were true that it had decided to ha-n Alsatians at its show. Tho reply just received from the secretary stated that the association did not pass such a Resolution, although a proposal was made bv a past president that (ho association should take such action. The show association had an arrangement with the Kennel Club, which rented a building on the show ground for the dog section, and the secretary’s letter doubted if the arrangement would permit of the elimination of ally breed from its schedule.