ANTI-FOX HUNTING.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 272, 24 January 1929, Page 1

ANTI-FOX HUNTING.

CRUSADE STARTED. The West of England has seen the commencement of an influential crusade against fox hunting in the past few weeks. The movement was started by Henry Nation, a prominentl West Somerset farmer, who announced that he intended to forbid hunting on his land in future. His example has been followed by two other large land owners, and now the papers publish the decision of Mrs Bonham Christie not to allow hunting ewer her estate of 2000 acres near Frome. In a letter to the South and West Wilts fox hunt, Mrs Christie, after denouncing what she describes as “barbarous cruelty” to a poor defenceless animal, says, “when your pack becomes a drag hunt (in which an artificially laid trail is used) I wil 1 help all I can and allow you anywhere over my land.” The movement may be regarded as a riddle of the Constitution which threatened to split the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The victory of Stephen 1 Coleridge and other members who want the society toi work actively against “blood sports” naturally has led flo increased activity among their supporters throughout the country.