SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4628, 3 November 1883, Page 2

SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sir,—l was very glad when I learned that a branch of this society had been established on the Thames. I hope that the Society will at once take action against the Borough or County Councillors for their inhumanity to horses, in neglecting to fill up the holes on the road. Many a time while drawing a vehicle have I put my foot into some of those horrible holes, and sustained a severe sprain in consequence. The state of the Parawai road at the present time is dreadful, and I quite dread being driven in that direction. If a wheel of the vehicle I draw gets into a rut it gives me a terrible shake. It would not cost more than £10 to fill up some of the worst holes between Shortland and the Eob Eoy Hotel. If Parawai was annexed to the Borough I believe that some improvement would take place, although there are many holes between Tararu and Shortland that need looking after. There is a practice common in the Borough of spreading coarse metal five or six inches thick on the road without placing any sand on top to blind it. Many a good horse, pulling a heavy load, has got a sprained leg in consequence, while every horse working in the Borough has had his poor feet hurt one time or another by the coarse metal which is four times larger than it ought to be; if it was blinded this would not matter so much. Talking to a cab horse yesterday, he said that the state of the cab stand in Albert street, near the Bank of New Zealand, is a source of great discomfort to him, as it is lop sided, instead of being level, as it ought to be, while the approach to the water trough near Mr Miller's office is positively dangerous to two-horse vehicles. The horse that draws the Southern Hop Beer Co.'s cart told me this morning that he was nearly turned inside out, and that seven bottles of hop beer were broken in his employer's cart in consequence of the wheel getting into a rut near Mr Dufty's, at Parawai.—l am, &c, Old Hoese.