PAKURANGA HOUNDS.

New Zealand Herald, 23 May 1921, Page 3

PAKURANGA HOUNDS.

MEET £T RAMARAMA, The PakuTanga, hounds met at Eamarama on Saturday, ai?d members of the hunt spent a most enjoyable day_.with the residents of the district. Her Excellency Lady Jellicoe. accampahied by Captain- Curtis, motored to the meet, and about five menjr b'ers. including the master. Mr, Bullock Webster, took their horses up by train: The gaity were inosi. hospitably received by the ost. Mr. D.. Lynch, and the ladies of the.: district. There was „& large attendance pf horsemen, some of the huntsmen, downing from districts as distant as Pukelfobe and Wa,iuku, and a great number of wives and daughters of ,the men came to meet Her Excellency. After luncheon the hounds were thrown off immediately behind the Public Hall,' and a move was made to the. country adjoining Bombay Hill, Tfce field w&s called/; on to negotiate about fifteen, fences, and: this preliminary excitement served only to arouse the eagerness of the huntsmen.. . Hounds soon found a hare and had a capital' run through Mr, Holmes' and'adjoining property, making a circle of about, three miles. This quarry was lost, but another was soon on foot, 'hounds run £rag. fest and. straight for about ten minutes. The country had been excellently prepared by the residents of the district, and every wjre fence had saplings oh it and every fence Was jumpable.. ■• In the last run. Her. Excellency, who had been going quite straight throughout, fell in negotiating m a big thorn "hedge with a drop on one side,. iShe quickly remounted and continued the ehase. following . until about 3 p.m., when the bunt concluded the