OVER KINDNESS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1933, Page 8

OVER KINDNESS

VICE-ROYALTY 'AND ANIMALS,

STORY OK A TOOTHBRUSH

Lady Game, wife of the Governor of New South Wales, in a, speech in Sydney last week, related an incident which tended to show that kindness to animals might be carried too far. “We were travelling in the west recently,” Her Excellency said, . “and when we arrived at our destination my daughter, Rosemary, unpacked for me. Afterwards I noticed .something odd about by toothbrush, and used another that I had with me. Next morning I asked Rosemary about it. My son, David, said immediately to Rosemary: ‘That must have been the one you cleaned Mick’s teeth with last

night. It was. Mick is our dog.” Lady Game had prefaced her story by saying: “Perhaps I have gone too far in encouraging a. love of animals among my children.” Lady Game, who was speaking to supporters of the King Edward VII Dogs’ Heme, said it was the first occasion on which she had been invited to speak about animals since her arrival in New South Wales. “Yet, as a family,” she added,'“we are devoted to animals—especially dogs. One of my earliest recollections is of a family of rabbits and hares, whose mother had been shot, and which we were allowed to bring up in our nursery.” Scouts and'' Guides, Lady Game added, were made? to promise to be kind to animals. She thought that

was one of the best things that Scouts and Guides learned. M.)>, •