SPORT OF COURSING
SOCIETY SEEKS ABOLITION (Bv Telegraph.—Press Association) DUNEDIN, Tuesday A decision to make representations to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, to have the Police Offences Act amended so that it would constitute an offence to course hares in an enclosed area, was reached by the Otago Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals at its monthly meeting to-day. Communications were received from the Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Canterbury, Timaru, Poverty Bay and Waikato societies commending the action of the Otago society in endeavouring to bring about the prohibition of the coursing of live hares. Mr J. C. Willis said that New Zealand lagged far behind Great Britain in the matter of legislation dealing with cruelty to animals, the only laws on the subject in the Dominion consisting of a few clauses in the Police Offences Act. It was decided to ask Mr C. L. Carr. M.P., to approach the Prime Minister and place the society’s request for an amendment of the Act before him.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21245, 16 October 1940, Page 9
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