UNUSUAL CATS TO ARRIVE BY AIR

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 18

UNUSUAL CATS TO ARRIVE BY AIR

Two unusual cats arrived by air from Tauranga yesterday morning for the national cat show at the Horticultural Hall today.

They are members of a breed known in England as Chestnut Brown and in the United States as Havana. Brown alt over, they are the same colour as kittens as when they are fully grown. There is no shading to a lighter or darker colour on any part of the body. The nose, lips and whiskers are brown like the coat, although the pads are pinkish-brown. Developed in England since 1952, the breed originated from mis-mating a Black Longhair female with a Sealpoint Siamese. One of the resulting black female kittens was mated back to her Siamese

grandfather, and in this litter was a self brown male, Elmtower Bronze Idol, the progenitor of the breed. The two specimens on display today were bred by Mrs P. Dickson, of Dikdoe Cattery, Tauranga, from a Black Short-hair cat, and Sealpoint, Blue Point and Chocolate Point Siamese. The show has 464 entries from Whangarei to Invercargill. Organised by the Canterbury All-breeds Cat Club, it is the first national cat show to be held in the South Island.