ALLEGED OVERCROWDING
STOCK PENS AT NGAHAURANGA. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Feb. 12. What is regarded as the overcrowding of stock pens at the municipal abattoirs at Ngahauranga was a question which exercised the minds of members of the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at its fortnightly meeting this week. A request has been made of the City Council that the conditions be remedied at once.
It was stated that the whole of the stock pens were badly overcrowded, some to more than double their reasonable holding capacity. Sheep, pigs and calves had been found to be herded together in one pen. In some pens the animals were so crushed that it was impossible for many of them to lie down at one time. Most of the animals had been in the pens since the day before, and could not be killed until the following day. The overcrowding had been responsible for sheep being smothered to death, and it was alleged great cruelty had been caused on account of these conditions.
It was announced that a copy of the report had been forwarded to the City Council with a request that the conditions ba at once remedied.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1931, Page 5
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