PURCHASE OF REMOUNTS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15488, 15 January 1916, Page 9

PURCHASE OF REMOUNTS.

(special to "tiie press.") WELLINGTON, January 14. At the present time horses suitable for military purposes arc being purchased by the Government in all parts of New Zealand and sent to the remount depot at Upper Hutt, to be transformed in outward appearance as well as in trained intelligence intc troop horses and horses for gun teams and teams for the transport of waggons. On Thursday there were about 500 horses in the horse lines at the depot, and in tho evening another batch from the South came in. In tho early hours of yesterday morning, however, over 400 of these horses worn to bo entrained and taken to other quarters in continuation of their training for rise at the front. 1 Altogether 1000 horses will be re- ! quired by the end of the month to make up* a draft for tho Imperial Government. After that tho buying and training of horses will go on steadily, as tho mounted forces of all future reinforcements will take their horses with them. Of tho tlrree classes of horses now being bought the artillery teams average about £30 each, whilo tho threequarter drafts and those for mounted work cost approximately £20 each. Some of course run to a higher figure and some a little lower.