THE KENNEL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3512, 5 July 1921, Page 20

THE KENNEL.

By Tssrob. Fttnciars and breeders oi dogs are cordially invited to contribute to this column. “Terror” will endeavour to make this department as interesting and up-to-date as possible, but in order to do this B* most have the 00-eperation of his reader#, faenoo h« trusts this levitation will he seapunded tc. All kennel moil will regret to learn that Mi Luke Crabtree, the elder brother of the visiting judge, Mr Sam Crabtree, died during the first week in April last. At the time of his death he was on a visit to Nice in search of health and quiet after a serious illness. "The deceased gentleman—who was” (says Cur Docs) “the founder of one of the largest retail chemistry businesses in the provinces, consisting of about 15 shops in the Oldham district, trading under tho name of J. ,T. Thompson and Co. (Ltd.) —had retired from business, devoting himself to pleasure and recreation, and again took up in a small way tho thread of his once famous hobby as an extensive breeder and exhiivtor of various breeds of dogs. The Lea Grange Kennels was for many years in charge of his next young:,-’,' brother, Mr Sam Crabtree up to AL Luke relinquishing the more strenuous feature of his variety kennels, and- now Air Sam, we believe, is tho sole survivor of four brothers." She lat" Mr Luke Crabtree was a shareholder in Our Dogs, arid took a keen interest in the journal’s fortunes. With the kennel world in general. I am sure all New Zealand fanciers xv 11 join in offering sincere sympathy and condolence in his sad bereavement to Mr Sam Crabtree and to the deceased genfteman's widow and family. Another severe loss to the, kennel world is that, of Mr Thomas Twyford. D.L., J.P.. who was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1906. and mho died at. Whitmore Hall last March. As a Home contemporary says: ‘To the kennel world the deceased is a great loss, for Mr Twyford was one of its brightest ornaments, and a generous patron of dog and agricultural shows and field trials, at which b'.s tall and stately figure will bn ijiuch missed. He was a man of fine physique and outskoken in disposition, "but bouoath his sometimes rugged manner

th ere lay a kind heart and gentle, sympathetic nature. No one uppreciac-d a win, if h:s dog deserved it, more than he, and no one depreciated a win of his dog more than lie if it did not deserve it. We have known him give back a prize his dog won, which he thought it d.d not deserve, io the show society as a special for iis next show ! lie preferred, too, to win with dogs of his own breeding rather than with those of somebody else’;:, breeding'. He was, in this way, a fancier io tho core. He made a deep study of type and character in dogs, and nothing delighted him more than to see his breeding products develop and come out on top, either in the field or show ring. We might almost add that ‘he was a man, take him for all in all, we shall not see his like again.’ Requiescat in pace.” —Mr J. S. Drury (Christchurch) has taken back with him from Dunedin a fine smooth fox terrier puppy bitch. • Air P. S. Romerill has parted with Waitaki Tigritiya, a blue-roan cocker pup, to Air j£. Guyton, of Edendale. For kicking to death a Pomeranian puppy a man was recently fined 40s by a W illesden (England) mag istrate. For stealing an Airedale terrier, valued at £SO, from its owner at Guise'ey (England) Thomas Cook got a month’s imprisonment; and for stealing a retriever from a Mrs Atassingham (London) another thief, one Hobson, got six months with hard labour. Query: What ought to happen to the Willesden magistrate, who, according to the law. could have inflicted the maximum penalty of three months’ imprisonment without the option of a fine on the worse than thief? politan Police School of Instruction, has asked lhe (English Kennel Club where he would be able to obtain pictures of typical specimens of various breeds for the .School of Instruction. It appeared that in consequence of the ignorance of constables as to the appearance of valuable don's they often term a dog they have brought in as a mongrel, and owners who go to the various stations to inquire whether their dogs have been found would be informed that a mongrel had been brought to the station on such and such a day, which might- be the lost dog', which, of course, owners could not recognise under such a description, and it was the intention of the School of Instruction to educate constables with the knowledge of lhe appearance of tho different, breeds of dogs. The committee decided that the Metropolitan School of Instruction bo presented by the Kennel Club with copies, of all the pictures of dogs which were io print and had appeared in the Kennel Gazette.