GOOD DEMAND FOR HORSES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22424, 10 June 1938, Page 6

GOOD DEMAND FOR HORSES

REPORT TO CLYDESDALE BREEDERS ANNUAL MEETING OF SOCIETY (PRESS ASSOCIATION TECEGEiV.) DUNEDIN, June 9. In his address to the annual meeting of the Clydesdale Horse Society of New Zealand, this evening, the retiring president, Mr R. Kennedy, of Drummond, gave his opinion that as long as breeders continued to breed good high quality horses, they had nothing to fear from mechanised ■ forms of, transport, which would always be too- costly for the average, farmer. A lesson in that respect was to be obtained from America and Canada, in which countries horsebreeding was on the increase.

The business of the society was fundamentally breeding and the improvement of the Clydesdale horse for show sale, and farm purposes, Mr Kennedy said. In the last few years, the demand for good show mares, fillies, and stallions had been good, and there had also been a good inquiry for farm horses. “As long as we continue to breed sound, high quality horses, we have nothing to fear from the mechanised form of transport," he said. “This will always prove too costly for the average farmer in New Zealand, or, in fact, in any country.” Officers were elected as follows; President, Mr J. W. Harding (Waipykurau); vice-presidents, Messrs Alex Brown (Kakanui), Andrew Grant (Eairlie), W. C.- Wallace (Cambridge), and Q. Donald (Featherston); treasurer. Mr Alex Hunter (Hawera); auditors, Messrs Walkley and Lawrence (Hawera);'members of council,- Messrs David Caldwell (Edendale), Simon Fleming (Crookston), A. E. Harding (Mangawhare), James Logan (Otama), A. Mcßobbie (Papakura), John Young (Allanton), Quentin. Donald, and Alex Hunter. A motion was carried urging the Minister for Agriculture to give urgency to the question of having the Stallion Bill placed on the Statute Book. Members referred to the Minister’s promise that this would be done last session, and emphasised that it was important that it should be given attention this session.