PIG-STICKING
TO TILE EDITOR Oil THE TRESS. Sir,—Your correspondent "Waif" would be better employed reading something about the government of India than accounts of pig-sticking in that country. A more absurd suggestion than replacing tent-pegging at the Agricultural and Pastoral Show would be difficult to imagine. "Waif" would apparently horrify the spectators with Ihc screams of a terrified pig and the blood of an innocent suckling. Such callous feelings as shown by ycur correspondent may be suited to the people of Spain and the South of France, where bull-fighting is indulged in; but I am sure they will never be tolerated in a country like New Zealand, let alone sedate Canterbury.
I trust the authorities will reject with scorn the suggestion made by your correspondent. In any case, if a weak-kneed committee should allow such an exhibition, it is a certainty that every Irishman present would be over the oval fence m a minute to prevent his national animal being slaughtered in this way.— Yours, etc., MONK. March 4, 11)35.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19350305.2.33.11
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21414, 5 March 1935, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
170PIG-STICKING Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21414, 5 March 1935, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in