CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2513, 28 May 1909, Page 6

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

“ (To the Editor.) Sir,—Before leaving Gisborne I should like to sav a few words through your paper to the general public. 1 have lived in many parts of New Zealand, both town and country, and have seen more cruelty to animals during the six years I have spent here that 1 ha\e ever seen anywhere else. The roads are bad, and the whip is cruelly used. I am glad to feel that there is a society here for the prevention of cruejty to animals. It is certainly much needed, and does wliat it can, hut there is much that it cannot touch—horses used when they are not fit. neglected, and after a hard day’s work turned into a paddock almost bare. I speak of what I have soon. If only men would think a little more, and care more for the sufferings of dumb animals, and when a horse or dog has worked a certain number of years let him in mercy be destroyed instead of trying to get every shilling’s worth out of him. Is it callousness, ignorance of the nature of an animal, or is it only the one overdominant idea of getting full money’s worth out of everythin" that makes these “lords of creation,” who have, or think thev have “all things put under them,” sell an intelligent, nervous animal which lias spent all the best of its life in faithful service to spend a weary old age in hard toil, 'little food, and heavy blows? I feel very deeply on this subject, and this must be niv apologv for asking you to insert this letter.—l am. etc., “ONE AY HO CARES.”