PREVENTION OF CRUELTY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 678, 1 December 1909, Page 5

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY.

,OKB BAD CASE MENTIONED. A meeting of the Sowcty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held m the Chamber of Commerce jcsterday afternoon, Mr. J. Ilott presiding. Several cases of alleged cruelty were otmsicV erod,_.ono in particular being ■ characterised as "the worst case o" deliberate ;raelty thai had > been bcfoio the society for six jeare" It appeared "rom tlie discussion on the case thai the animal, a horse, was suffering from ringbone and sidobonc, and was gone in one of the hind logs, when the inspector first examined it A veterinary surgeon, was called ; in to inspect the animal and pronounced ' it (absolutely unfit to work. The inspector visited the horse again, anu, it was alleged, found thai;, a nail had been driven into the frog of one of its feet The allegation is that tho nail had | been wilfully driven diagonall) into the frog . for tho purpose of proving that the original ' diagnosis of the surgeon and tho inspector was , incoircct I The following donations to the funds of th» j society were acknowledged —Mr T C Williams, XI Is , Mosdames J. Joseph and A. E. Ko not, M«s,is A ritchett, V. Penty, Frasor, J. ! Ilott, G. Tollmrst, nud H. Noms, IDs each; , Messrs T, M. Douglas, R C. Kirk, Mxmcncff and Young, and Equitable Bnildmg Society, j ss. each; Mosdames J Ilott and M. KondalL j Messrs AV. Cook, Morrison, and "Frond," 2a. i Cd. each, Mr. Ncilson, 2s. <