OPENING MEET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 101, 2 May 1938, Page 12

OPENING MEET.

PAKURANGA HUNT.

MANY VISITORS ATTEND,

The opening <Tay of the Pakurangn Hunt was held at East Tnniaki on Saturday under ideal weather conditions. La'te summer sun and recent rains had made the fields perfect for riding, and the setting for the hunt, with the yellow gorse and bright green fields made an attractive picture.

There was an unusually large number of followers, and the spectators also were numerous. The programme for the day started with breakfast at the East Tamaki Hall, after which Mr. H. Bullock Webster, the master, welcomed visitors and monVbere and thanked the farmers for their permission to hunt over the land. Following the hunt, at which there were two kills, members were entertained at tea at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Smith. The Vice-Regal party comprised Viscountess Hal way, Major R. G. G. Byron, military secretary to the Governor-General, and Mrs. Byron, and Major and Mrs. G. B. Parkinson. His Excellency the Governor-General. Viscount Galway, and his children, the Hon. Simon Monckton-Arundell, and the Hons. Mary, Celia and Isabel Mockton, were riding.

Anion? the spectators vrere:—The Countess of Orford. Mrs. H. Bullock Webeter. Mrs. Eric Nolan, Mrs. WillMeLaughlin, Mrs. Kenneth B. Myers. Mrs. Keith Anderson, Mrs. Harold Bull. Mrs. Alan Donald, Mrs. T. H. E. Oakes, Mrs. Cedric Herman, Mrs. Owen Self. Mrs. Arthur Waller. Mrs. Douglas Kirker (England). Mrs. Brian Hewitt, Mrs. T. Ormiston. Mrs. Bisrhoff Madden. Mrs. Cyril Fulton. Mrs. T. H. Brooks. Mrs. J." M. Toft (Maramarua). Mrs. E. Fielding. Mrs. W. J. Brooks, Mrs. McGowan. Mrs. Vercoe. Mrs. C. Allen. Mrs. R. D. Xeil. Mrs. H. Townsend, Mrs. A. McGregor Grant. Mrs.. I. G. Glennie. Mrs. J. Eastley. Mrs. X. W. McD. Weir. Mrs. May-Somerville (Rangiriri), Mrs. H. H. Partrid-e. Mrs. L'rquliart, Mrs. G. C. Dyer. Mrs. .1. Davidson (Dargavillel. Mrs. R. (I. Rainger, Mrs. Somerset Thomas. Mrs. A. G.~X. Wyatt, Mrs. W. Howard Thomas. Mrs. Geoffrey Clifton, Mrs. Dalton. Mrs. Gerald Stead. Mrs. X. Carnarvon (Mangapail. Mrs. Donald Gorrie. Misses M. and \Y. Kerr Taylor, Miss Alison Waller. Miss Cecily Riwsell. Miss Mary Pilkington. Miss Barbara Xolan. Miss Ailsa Russell. Mit>s Margaret Ewen, Miss Lois Cameron, Miss P. Weston. Miss T. Thomas, Miss Una Muir. Miss Ruby Wallace. Miss Kathleen Brooks, Miss'w. Woods, Mies Keitha Weir.