In returning thanks for his re-election, Mr. H. Bullock Webster, master of the Pakuranga Hunt Club, Auckland, said that he had corresponded with all the masters of hounds m New Zealand, and the masters of all the principal packs in the Old Conntxy, and oach was o! tho i unanimous opinion that hunting should be carried on during the war. He also said that English hounds .had been taken across to France, and that hunting was being carried on within sound of the guns. He had letters stating that nearly half the fields in some of the packs in England were comprised of men in khaki, and that at every opportunity soldiers on leave had a day's sport wvth the hounds. Pakuranga Hunt Club/ias a total membeisliip 6f about eighty, and out of this number thirty had joined the Forces aud nve at present fighting for tlie Empire. This was a record for any club to be prpud of Huge range in heavy winter shirts, 3s -3 Id, 4s 6d, 4s lid, 5s 6d, 6s 6d, 7s 6d, to 13s 6d. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Mannersstreet.—Advt. ■ Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, for Couifhs and Colds, never fails, Is od. r-Advt.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 91, 17 April 1917, Page 2
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