PREVENTION OF CRUELTY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 123, 2 September 1910, Page 5

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY.

SOME USEFUL SUGGESTIONS. By Telegraph.—Presv Association. I Wellington, September I. The conference of delegates of various I societies in the Dominion for the preven-1 tion of cruelty to animals, was concluded | to-day. Mr." 11. Harikins, Palmerston North, presided. I i It 'was decided to ask the various so- ' cieties to forward to the secretary of the conference records of all Court proceedings involving cases of cruelty to animals. Individual societies are to he requested to communicate with local bodies in their respective districts to make ' a provision prohibiting the practice of allowing; one person to be in charge of more than one vehicle at a time. Mr. ■G. Laurenson, M.P., is to be communicated with, suggesting that in any proposed legislation dealing with cruelty to animals, dehorning of cattle after the age of eighteen months should be prohibited. The cruelty which poultry have to suffer while in transit, owing to the construction of crates in which they are carried, was brought before the Conference by Mr. Zouch (Inspector S.C.P.A., Christchurch). The attention of the Minister for Agriculture is to be directed to the matter, with a view to having a ..better kind of crate brought into use. | The next conference will be held at Palmerston North in September next. From . thence onwards the conference will be j held annually.