CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
INADEQUATE PUNISHMENT. A MOVEMENT IN SYDNEY. Sydney, June 20. Arising out of recent prosecutions and what is regarded as inadequate punishment for offenders, the public, through the open columns of the Press, is taking up vigorously the cases df ill-used animals, and especially horses, and urging the reform of the law. Dumb creation, as a matter of fact, is hardly any better protected today in New South Wales, as far as the law is concerned, than it was about 25 years ago. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is doing a great work, but is is restricted by the weakness of the existing law in many respects. The abolition of pigeon shooting, for example, has been strongly urged, but in vain. Not a few people in the community have been pleased to see the introduction in Sydney of a new form of coursing, in which an automatic tin hare plays the part of the live animal and shows a turn of speed which has got the dogs thinking. As far as horses are concerned, the letters which are appearing in the Press show clearly that the slaves of the shafts have a great many friends, whose agitation for an amendment of the existing law, it is hoped, may be fruitful when the politicians have time to forget their own troubles and get down solidly to work.
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Southland Times, Issue 20225, 9 July 1927, Page 2
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232CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Southland Times, Issue 20225, 9 July 1927, Page 2
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