29 JUNE 1929, Page 20

HUMANE SLAUGHTER.

Discussing this matter with a Swiss law-student to-day, I learned that it has been the law in Switzerland for more than thirty years for every sort of animal to be stunned before bleeding and that this is done at the public abattoirs, which are under regular inspection. If the law is not being kept, any citizen can lodge a complaint and insist on a conviction. It seems a pity that a country like England should be so far behind a little country like Switzerland in civilized practices. —E. WATSON, Maison Rousseau, Clarens.