WELLINGTON KENNEL CLUB
His Excellency the Governor-General has promised to attend' the Kennel Club's show next week. 'For the first time in, the history of the New Zealand "fancy''-a member of the Government House staff (in the person of" Captain A. R. Curtis) has entered a dog in one of the terrier breeds. The show this year is rendered doubly interesting from the fact that this will be the last appearance in New Zealand of the; great Airedale champion "Shirley Mac," who has been bought at a record .figure by the Bellairs kennels of New South Wales, and leaves for his new home on the next Sydney boht. There will be over three hundred dogs in all benched at the show, and fanciers are coming from all- parts of the Dominion to keep up. the Wellington Club's reputation as the meeting place, par excellence^ for all New Zealand dogs.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 11
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149WELLINGTON KENNEL CLUB Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 11
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