HORSE BREEDING.
TYPES FOR ARMY USE. FEW NOW IN AUSTRALIA. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 y.m.) SYDNEY. Aug. 11. Presiding at tho annual meeting of tho New South Wales Lancers' Association, Lieutenant-Colonel McMahon sounded a noto of warning. He said that if Australia were suddenly called upon to provide troop horses for a fow light horso brigades, she would have the greatest difficulty in doing so, as the breeder of the typo of horso required for military purposes was fast going out of business. No encouragement was given to tho breed_er of the kind of horses which would bo required iu caso of national emergency. Colonel McMahon said tho increase in the number of motor-cars was having a depressing effect on tho horse-breeding industry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 13
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126HORSE BREEDING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 13
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