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Southland Times, Issue 22763, 13 December 1935, Page 5

It was scarcely understandable why authorities in London and other English cities allowed their streets to be monopolized by dogs, said Dr A. R. Main, of Melbourne, giving some impressions of' a world tour in an address at Christchurch. Big shops in England had kennels where women shoppers could leave their dogs, women took dogs from Pekingese to mastiffs into restaurants and kept them under the table while they ate and dogs left outside every church and cathedral waited patiently for their owners, and very much annoyed tourists who were used to seeing dogs kept to more obscure positions. He had actually seen a woman take a dog into a magnificent Scottish war memorial until an attendant had the dog removed.