S.P.C.A.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2905, 18 October 1916, Page 3

S.P.C.A.

A meeting of the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held last evening, Mr. P. Meadowcroft presiding. The inspector roported that a horso belonging to an expressman at Northlands had been found -with a cut on the shoulder, evidently inflicted by some malicious person.. The cut was four inches long, on the near side of the neck under the collar. The inspector examined the place where the horso was tethered, but ho could not find anything in the shape of glass or barbed-wire which would cause tho injury. Further inquiries are boing made in tho matter. The annual meeting of the society will bo hold on Tuesday, October 31. Subscriptions for two weeks, ending October 17, were acknowledged' as follow :—New Zealand Warehousemen's Association, £2 25.: Mrs. M. A. WilXams,.£2; Messrs. J. Staples and Co., Ltd., Union Steam Ship Co., and Singer Sewing Machine Co., £1 Is. oach, £3 35.; Mrs. A. E. Low and ''Protector," £1 each, £2: New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd., Whitcombo and, Tombs, To Aro House, and C. Smith, Ltd., 10s. 6d. each, £2 25.; Dunlop Rubber Co., 10s.; Messrs. J. Newton and Son, 7s. 6d.; Mesdames Sitchfield and T. Young, Dr. Cahill, Messrs. T. J. Leighton, Hirst and Co., Potter an<i Son," C. P. Powles, L. 6. Reid, Millican and M'Arthur, N.Z. Biblo Tract Society, Colonial Motor Co., ss. each, £2 155.; Miss Rous-Marten, Mrs. Gibb, Messrs. S: Bull, Farmer, C.H., and "Friend," '2s. 6d.. each, los.: total, £15 14s. 6d.