PREVENTION OF CRUELTY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 4 November 1914, Page 9

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY

■WELLINGTON SOCIETY MEETS. ■ The fortnigntly meeting of the committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held last night. Mr. J. S. Jameson presided. _ .... . _In his fortnightly report to the society, Captain Henry reported a num-' her of cases of cruelty to animals he had discovered.and remedied during the past fortnight. He brought under tho notice of the sooiety a case of. overcrowding of sheep in a truck at Nga-: hauranga. lfc was explained that tJie truck contained some 20 sheep over the' specified number allowed to ;be accommodated. Three were dead .and some others dying. The stationmaster, said the inspector, had remedied the overcrowding and removed a number of sheep. The society decided to place the matter in the hands of a solicitor.

Subscriptions were receiyed and acknowledged for tho past fortnight:— N.Z. Kennel Club, Smgor Sowing Machine Oo v Mr. G. M. Kebbell, £1 Is. each; Colonial Moior Company.. Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., Mr. M. ICemsley, and Mrs. Callendai, 10s. each: Mrs. Muir, Dr. Kemp, Archdeacon Harpor, 'ss. each; Mrs. Wallace, 10s. 6d.; Potter and Sons, R A.H., and Hon. J. Allen, ss. each; Mr. J. Ames, Miss Fisher, Mr. G R. Wilton, Rev. Dr. Gibb, Mrs. Mills, Miss Crawford, Miss T. Crawford, Mr, Keys. Mrs. Hiley, RJL, A Friend, Mrs. C. Fraser, Mr. A. H. Hall, Mr. G. Stewart, Mr. Duncan, Mesdames Brown, Mitchell, and Rose, 2s. 6d. each; Mrs. Lawless and H.8.K., 35.; Mrs. Kidspn, Friends (2), 2s. each.; nine subscriptions of Is.; total, with smaller amounts, £11 os. lOd.