STATEMENT DENIED
NO REFLECTION ON ROYALTY LONDON R.S.P.C.A. MEETING. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. November -j. By to-day’s mail tho Christchurch “Star* 5 received tho following letter from the Hon. Stephen Coleridge:—> “Sir, —In jour paper of Juno 7th, you have a description of the annual meeting of the R.S.P.C.A. You allude to the remarks of Lord Banbury (from tho chair), who brought into the discussion the King and the L’rince of Wales. In my opinion this was quite improper and unfair. No one at the meeting had the slightest intention of attacking the Prince of Wales, for whom everyone has a loyal and even an affectionate regard, but if the reformers are never to attempt to nut an end to the practice, because som# illustrious and admirable persons iiK dulge in it, there is no abuse or questionable practice in all history that would not have thus secured immunity from criticism. “Finally your account states that the meeting closed in unroar. This is an entire invention. Nothing of the kind occurred. On the contrary at the conclusion of the debate, I mvself proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman. and the meeting closed in the most friendly manner. T think it is to be regretted that tho mischievous invention of an uproar that never occurred should be spread about New Zealand.” Tlie report to which the letter refers was a Press Association cablegram from London reporting a meeting at which it was stated that a motion by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge was carried regretting that the soeiefv had refused Mrs Sarah Grove Orndv’s legacy of £IO.OOO. Mr Coleridge had nhn declared that hunting was distinctly cruel. Lord Banbury said that the term# nf the legacy rendered its acreptams© impossible Thcv must ret rid of King, who was tho society's nntro®, and tV» Prince of Wales, who was tb# president, in order to acrppt the legacy. as t*'*' King was fond of shooting and the Prince was an ardent hunt** m a u.
From a nowsnanor article nccomrelivin'* Mr Coleridge's letter to tho it appears that tho motion '■■fK lost h"e five votes, end thnj-n wn* disorder or uproar at the meeting.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12614, 26 November 1926, Page 6
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362STATEMENT DENIED New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12614, 26 November 1926, Page 6
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