HORSES FOR ARMY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 40, 27 November 1940, Page 6

HORSES FOR ARMY

MOVEMENT ADVANCED. THE APPEAL IN ASHBURTON. HUNDRED STILT/ REQUIRED, About 100 horses for the use of the Army for special training which, the C.Y.C. will carry out in March and April of next year are still required from the Ashburton district, where the offers of horses for this purpose so far total 80.

The campaign for the horses’is being conducted hv Major Gordon Brown (commander of B Squadron, C.Y.C.). The horses will he required for two months early next year, and for IS days in each year following, unless they are taken overseas. In that event, the animals will he paid for at the valuation placed on them, by special valuation officials. A list of horses available will be made up on December 7 and a Government veterinary officer and a stock inspector will inspect them and place values on them. If they are accepted, the horses will be branded on the hoof and payment of £5 for the hire of the house will Jbe paid. Committees are being set up in'the several' districts with the object of carrying on the campaign for horses, and they will prepare lists of owners who are willing to lend their horses. At a meeting at Rakaia on Monday the following committee was set up for- this purpose: Messrs C. Featherstone, R. Baker, C. Kermeen, T. V. Wilkinson, A. Moon, A. G.' Holmes, R. G. Morris, K. Tatterson and J. Lochhead.

A similar meeting was held at Hinds last evening, when the following committee was set up: Messrs L. Chisnall, C. W. Keeley, J. C. Guinness, E. Lowe, D. Tait, A. N. Mclntosh, S. P. Taylor and D. M. Bruce.

A committee comprising Messrs A. P. Bruce, L. Fechney, E. Tatton, J. Cunneen, A. Dougles, P. M. Harper, G. Brown, R. D. Hefford, and two representatives from the Agricultural and Pastoral Association and the Farmers’ Union, was set up at a meeting held in Ashburton. Major Gordon Brown, who was elected chairman, explained that the purpose of the committee would he to obtain offers of horses in the area between Tinwald, Chertsey, Winchmore and the coast. The committee’s work would he to obtain the names and addresses of those in the district .prepared to offer animals. Full particulars of the scheme were in the hands -of himself and the Stock Inspector at Ashburton (Mr A. Douglas), but anybody with a horse to offer should not hesitate to communicate with a member of the committee or any stock agent in the district.