TO STOP STAG-HUNTING
15,000 SIGN PETITION IN BRITAIN DEEMED A CRUEL SPORT /Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Friday. All candidates at the General Election will be asked to support a petition in favour of legislation abolishing stag hunting, as being a cruel sport. Tha 15,000 signatories include the writers, Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mr. Arnold Bennett, Mr. John Galsworthy, Mr. Alfred Noyes, Miss Edith Sitwell and Miss Rebecca West, and also Miss Maude lloyden, the Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. E. W r . Barnes, the Bishop of Ripon, Dr. E. A. Burroughs; General Higgins, of the Salvation Army; the Chief Rabbi, Dr. J. H. Hertz. The members of the Labour and Liberal Parties are practically unanimously supporting the petition. In the meantime, the members of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have voted by 3,125 votes to 1,142 in favour of a campaign against stag-hunting. It is expected that this decision will lead to resignations, as the society has many stag-hunters among its members.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 643, 20 April 1929, Page 9
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167TO STOP STAG-HUNTING Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 643, 20 April 1929, Page 9
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