BREEDING OF HORSES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 16, 29 October 1938, Page 3

BREEDING OF HORSES.

REMGUNTS SUBSIDY SCHEME. GOOD PROGRESS REPORTED. * (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 28. The Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) gave some interesting information to a racing club deputation to-day on the work so far accomplished by the Department of Agriculture, in. conjunction , with authorities of the Racing Conference, in connection with the remounts subsidy regulations. He said that 33 districts had been created and 25 now had subsidised stallions. The course seemed well set for the success of the Government’s scheme. What had already been achieved should go a. long way toward, the encouragement of breeding a good stamp of horse. The day of the horse had not yet passed, though in recent years it had been seriously threatened. It was hoped that the bringing into active operation of the Remounts Encouragemlent Act, buried in the Statute* Book since 1914, and under it State assistance, coupled with the aid extended by the racing authorities to breeders, would give stiunulus to the breeding of different types of horses.