ANIMAL WELFARE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3854, 6 October 1928, Page 1

ANIMAL WELFARE.

TREATMENT OF THE HELPLESS.

This year “Animal Welfare Week” is to be held in New Zealand from October 25 to 31. It will be remembered that last year’s welfare week was, generally speaking, the most successful held since the inception of the event five years ago.

A pamphlet issued by the organiser, Mr. J. A. Forbes, of Oamaru, slates that each year there is unquestionably- an increasing interest being shown in the observance of the week by school teachers, who now more fully recognise the value of humane instruction in the educa tion of their pupils. In a recent issue of the American Journal of Education appears these words: “Kindness to animals is not mere sentiment, but a requisite of a very ordinary education. Nothing in arithmetic or grammar, or any ■branch of study, is so important for a child to learn as humaneness.” On Friday, October 26, the schools will observe “Humane Day,” when teachers will speak to their classes on the duty of kindness to animals, and set the pupils essays embracing the subject. “In England and America,” the pamphlet points out, “school children are invited to prepare posters dealing with animal life. This * an effective way of impressing the youthful mind on humane lines. Several schools throughout the Dominion held last year an animal parade, the pupils being invited to bring their pets into the school grounds, where a demonstration was held and a short programme of addresses, recitations, etc., given. On Sunday, October 28, ministers have been requested to preach to their congregations a sermon on man’s relation to the animal kingdom, or refer to the matter in their pulpits in the course f>f the day’s services. Sunday School teachers are to be asked to bring the subject before their scholars.