BAND OF MERCY DEPARTMENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 340, 18 October 1923, Page 14

BAND OF MERCY DEPARTMENT.

rii' .Mm ..t tali Department la h "in children to t>'- Kind to dim animal In this connection boa trie i ii.it "Evil Is w i t'liKin foi want i thought.' and our Band si Mere) ethi children on boa to treat theli pel !!\ ■ i \ membei <>f such ;i Hand tak< this pledge: "I will try to be Kind to ai living • reatures, ami trj i«» protect then Ironi cruel u in England lately an Animals' w • Week was boat in oonnectioi th»i< with i large!) attended meet In held in London. The Duchess of Hamilton, who presided, said that th<' i! protection movement was an •itjal part of that humanitarian feel inu r Which was th<> hasis of civilisation 'no it. v Dean lags aald that if th> averagi mai had aa high i sens, ot nutj i the averaaa ahaap th< world would be | bettor place to live in' Similar meetings were boM il over the eouatri So suceaaaful this welfare wash at Horn, that tlie Onmaio Hnnd -.f Mercv has aafcod all Othei

Bands in this Dominion, a, well as theii Mother i ni»>n>. to imlsl in bavinj th< t'usi i< rk in I tecembei an "Animal ' Welfare Weak" la tins Dominion. on Docojabei lad, Sunday, aak youi clergyman to speak upon kindness t<> animals <;»t it referred to In Bunda) schools; ask the headma ter <>f your school l( i on tin animals given during thi.s wee] up a public in' eting, II possibl* short sj" ech< n ing hou oui wanl oi thought i i tin and <mu dumb frien and iecita i ions appropi )■■' Farewell to uls Steed," and j ou cai much interest aad Instruction combined. The local B.P.C A still onl) be glad to help you. Gel little paragraph* In your locs 1 papei b, and do all in posroi lo make Animals' Welfan W a slice.-ss If :m\ I 'nioii has n<> I of ICerc] in connection with it. write to Hn Hi al I II i ' I'arncii. Auckland, our Dominion Super intondont for this branch, and she will privo you all information rting one "Mr prayeth hi I who loveth •. all things both ill." "Behind • i groat mother." The moth* i oi ami's Prhne aTlaistei Is om of the Yimous Macuonakl t< the other three afe Lady Rdj ntei lad Burne Jones, and Mrs Lockwood Klpl mothor of Rudyard Klpl li