And Sheep as Well To the Editor of the "NorriGunta Dany News"
Sin—With reference to the letters which have been appearing recently about te plight of the pigs, 1 should appreciate mentioning one sight which saw on Saturday at 5.15 in connection' sheep.
Just at the end of Avenue Edward by Chengtu Road, the bus passed a flock of sheep. They were being herded along by a bunch of coolies with long poles who were banging them across their backs every step of the way, with one leaping up and down with both feet off the ground at once, waving his arms and shouting, looking mad himself and quite enough to send all the sheep mad. 'There were a couple of wheelbarrows following which had picked up those who had fallen by the way, some of them having fainted or already' dead, and there was one hand-truck with' some of them looking just like trussed up bundles of wool! They had obviously come a considerable distance already, and from that. point obviously still' had a good distance 10 Ko, right across the city in all the Even' if they can't find some means of transportation for these poor things, surely some means can be found of regulating the times they pass across the city so that they don't have to go just_when the heaviest trame is around? Also, surely it wouldn't be too dificult for the police, at every corner where they are passed, to just cast an eye over the plodding beasts to see that they ore being taken along in as calm and unexcitable a manner as possible? Some will immediately say they couldn't do that and watch the trafic, but they manage to do it to chase odd rickshaws and collect cushions, so could they do it la this case with a firm word of authority. If that was done all the way along, the coolies are naturally going to take all care possible, With regard to crossing the city during the rush hours, why can't they travel early mornings? It will probably be said that they have to come long distances from the country so that they can't manage to arrive at that hour. "If so, is there no means whereby the Council, or a Society or a combine, could obtain a sma plot of land on the main road followed, just on the outskirts of the. city, where they could rest up for a few' hours and be fed and watered, and then continue their trip across the oily at a more convenient time There would be diMculties to surmount for a certainty, but if a suflcient number got together and tried to arrange it I feel sure that not only. one, but several small yards could be fixed up at the most needed sections at the edges of the Settlements.
Turning from the misery of those exhausted and bewildered animals, the immediate sight was a truck of pigs, well over-loaded, with x coolie walking right over their backs from one side of the truck to the othe After ull the misery of a sea-trip, they are needlessly crammed one top of. each other, and then have people walk on them! Isn't it suffciently important to warrant having 'a policeman stand by at the. spot where they are transferred from ships to trucks; to see that only a regulated number are loaded? It seems that some adjustment is desperately need-fed somewhere, as much of the misery is needlessly inflicted.
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