KENNEL NOTES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1536, 7 August 1901, Page 42

KENNEL NOTES

BY TE KURIAROHA.

(All communications should be addressed to the Kennel Editor.)

COMING SHOWS

Manawatu A. and P. Association. Wellington Kennel Club.

The tenth annual show of the Auckland Kennel Club opened on Friday last, and proved a great success. Two collies from Napier scored heavily in their class, H. McDonald’s (Makaraka) Ranger easily winning the championship for collie dogs, and W. A. Smith’s (Napier') Sultan and Seabreeze outclassing the local exhibits in fox terriers. A couple of splendid imported field spaniels were exhibited by a Cambridge owner. Altogether 240 dogs wer e shown, representing 360 entries In Airedales, D. C. Ingram’s ch. dog Bena of Fernland, won three prizes, also special and champion prizes. This makes a total of five champions, ten specials and seventeen first prizes. The show of bull dogs and bull terriers was very fair, and, as usual, collies were very well represented. Irish terriers were also largely represented. I am informed that Mr Horrax has been asked to judge at the forthcoming New South Wales Kennel Club Show in September next. I hope Mr Horrax will be able to accept the honour done him, for no man has done more for the fancy in the colonies than he has. I have the New South Wales Kennel Club Schedule to hand, comprising some two hundred and twenty classes for all breeds, fanciers may inspect same at this office.

I believe some amount of discussion in spaniel circles is going on re the weight of spaniels. In arriving at any decision on this point, I hope fanciers will take into consideration the difference in the

conditions under which dogs live in th« colonies compared with those ah Homo. The Wellington Kennel Club have had seme discussion on the matter, and have raised the standard to under 3Clbs. I would like to see some uniformity amongst affiliated clubs on this point. At the next meeting of the New Zealand Kennel Club, to be held on 7th inst., two important matters will come up for discussion Mr Webster’s protect against withholding the prize money in connection with his dog “Grit’s” win at the late Christchurch show, and a new rule to the effect “That no delegate shall be entitled to vote on any question whilst any sum due or payable to the funds of the New Zealand Kennel Club by the club or association he represents shall be in arrears for three months,” and “that no judge shall be an exhibitor at any show at which he is judging whether in the same classes as he judges or any other.”