CRUELTY OF SPORT
DENUNCIATION IN ENGLAND. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, May 5. There was strong denunciation of cruelty under the guise of sport at a monster meeting under the auspices of the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports. Dean Hereford said: “We must denounce with whole-hearted horror certain aspects of fox-hunting which are disgusting and brutalising.” The Archdeacon of Westminster said that the morbid desire to destroy life for the sake of sport was an unconscious survival of the savage age. Coursing, deer hunting and hare hunting were barbaric. Mr Bernard Shaw, in a letter, states: “There is dissension in the Royal family. Prince Henry says every artist should be a sportsman. The Prince of Wales promptly countered by refusing to attend a bull fight. Certainly an artist who paints birds in living colours and stalks rhinoceros with a movie camera is a better sportsman than the malignant idiot who shoots them and gets photographed squatting on the corpse.” The Bishop of Salisbury stated that on the whole shooting, hunting and fishing did more harm than good.—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20172, 7 May 1927, Page 7
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