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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 22

The old sport of rounding up wild horses, which was popular in the Waikato and Klug Country hinterland twenty to thirty years ago, was revived last month by a party of Ngaroma settlers in tlie Te Awainutu district. Their catch consisted of nine wild horses, which are to be broken for farm work. In late years the waste spaces over which wild horses used to roam have been restricted by settlement, and the annual “drives” of 20 years ago had reduced the bands of tlie’outlaws very greatly, the numbers now running to hundreds where formerly there were thousands. The Ngaroma hunting party made their catch by setting snares along the tracks known to be followed by the horses on the way to water, and on trails of escape when startled.