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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 910, 1 September 1910, Page 5

The Rabbi of Dunedin (the Rev. A. T. Chcdbwski) bolieves that the . ohurches should assist in promoting the interests of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Societies. "At yesterday's conference . he suggested that in every city the clorgy of oil denominations should be asked to set aside one day in each year as "Animals Sunday," when they would deliver special' addresses on kindness to animals, and give the offertory to the funds of. the society. Tho secretary of the conference (Mr. Carroll, junr.) said that the Wellington Society had written to the local Ministers' Association some time ago, and had received an unfavourable reply. ,The association expressed sympathy, but offered no practical sympathy. Mr. Spiller (Cliristchnrch) said he wae ono of a deputation which waited on Bishop Grimes on tho sanie subject. He was very sympathetic, and promised to move in the matter, but him not done so. He was sorry to say that one Presbyterian minister who had been approached said that tliero was no cruelly, nnd the movement was not needed. (Laughter.) It was finallv moved by Mr. Chodowski, and carried, "That this conference urge on societies to ask the clergy in each centre to deliver addresses on kindness to a&imala on one Sunday in the yoart"