DECLINE IN HORSES.
OLD SOLDIER'S LAMENT.
Two old settlers were soliloquising at the dedication of tho new colours of the Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles at New Plymouth last Sunday afternoon. They both had been members of the same troop, though known then as the Wairoa Cavalry, well over half a century ago. Evidently they were not impressed with the quality of tho horseflesh on parade. " Looks to me," said one, " as if tho motor-car is making good hacks scarce. Seo those horses —they must have como out of tho milk carts! Why, when wo were in camp in the old days every horse was tit for any com pany in the world!" " Yes; quite right," replied his companion ; " our mounts wero regarded as the best in the country. The Imperial officers used to say they would not have disgraced the Life Guards. But there wero no motor-cars then and wc young fellows took a real pride in horseflesh, not in machinery!"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20263, 24 May 1929, Page 12
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