S.P.C.A.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3080, 10 May 1917, Page 3

S.P.C.A.

FORTNIGHTLY -MEETING. ; '

The fortnightly meeting of the Society 'for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals • was held on Tuesday. Mr. F. Meadowcroft presided. The report on the subscriptions collected during the past fortnight showed that they totalled £9'7s:,"which "was made ,»up as follows:—Messrs. F. W. Rowley, Dalgety. and Co., ,Lt3., and Hordman and KJrkcaldie, £1 Is. each, £3 35.; Messrs. Atkinson and Dale, 10s. 6d.; Evans Bay Timber Co., 10s.; Messrs. R. W.-Webb, Ballinger Bros., James Smith Ltd., Brownlee Ltd'.,; R. Temple, British Empire Trading Co., Mathews and Co., C. A. Richardson, "VV." Littlejohn and Son, R. C. Renner, Robert Johnson, Brown, Neave, and Courtenay, Phillips and Pike, Mrs. Sidey, W. R. Bock, D. Milligan.'ss. each, £4; Messrs. B. Nimmo, B. C v Aston, G. Flux, M. Marks, Mesdames Evans and Baillie, and Friend, Miss; G. Mason, 2s. 6d. each, £1; Mr. G. MacMoran, 3s. 6d. A : resident of Island Bay wrote expressing the opinion that there should be an ambulance in Wellington for the conveyance of injured animals. His letter was "received." :; . ,

Miss Caroline Herford, who has just been elected to the Manchester City Council, is lecturer" and demonstrator in education at Manchester University, a member of the University Committee of the Workers' Education Association, and a staunch suffragist. Since the outbreak of the war she has found time to help to organise a Voluntary Aid Detachment among University women. Miss Herford, who was warmly welcomed by her colleagues, ;is tho third woman oity, councillor m Manchester.. Miss Ashton was .elected .in 1908, and Mrs., Eedford in 1910.