CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
[To the Editor.) Sin, —Although quite a stranger in these parts, I could not help noticing one of the most glaring cases of cruelty to animals it has ever been my lot to witness. I saw a conveyance, which was loaded to its utmost carrying capacity— I should think 2| tons—and the driver was deliberately flogging the two poor brutes of horses into a gallop. The unfortunate animals looked fit to drop, and the marks they bore of their un- . merciful driver’s flogging was a disgrace to any civilised community. Heavy >' horses of this kind are not supposed to be driven out of a walk. Later I saw the same driver returning after having . delivered his load, and he was going at such a pace that pedestrians had a. narrow escape of being run over, especially at street corners, which were rounded at a gallop. If there is not a society for prevention of cruelty to animals ic your town, and the owner of these horses does not take steps to regulate the pace at which they ought to be driven, it is a wonder your police do not take the matter in hand. —I am etc., A Stbangee.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 July 1901, Page 2
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202CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 July 1901, Page 2
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