THE POVERTY BAY HOUNDS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16710, 21 April 1925, Page 7

THE POVERTY BAY HOUNDS.

Heavy local rains on Friday afternoon and night put the Awapuni district in fairly good riding order for llie opening meet on Saturday, when a field of between seventy and eighty riders were rewarded by a capital day’s sport, as hounds brought- a brace and a-lialf of hares to book, all after good hunts, the first hunt being the fastest of the two, owing to the fact that as the day progressed the hot sun gradually dried up the ground, rendering the scent somewhat catch v.

Mr. Jobson gave us his usual hearty welcome to the Broad acres, and in a- few minutes from the order to move off, the first hare was afoot, and the quality of the scent was immediately apparent, as hounds made the pace a real cracker, running from the Mata-whero road end of the swamps almost the whole length of the fiats to the Tc 1-fa para end thence right-handed over the stock road arid holding on a riglit-liande circle all the way, she made hack over the stock road again, and running the length of the Hats again, she doubled short- back and bounds killed her. The second bare gave a similar line but the pace was less severe, though quite faat enough for fat horses on a hot day, ai/d she, too, was killed alter a' really nice hunt.

Hounds soon found again, and were running well when the quarry appeared in view, and proving to he a young, leverat, and a rare stout one, too, hounds were whipped off. Luncheon was thou partaken of, and on drawing the top “roughs” a stout hare was soon found outside them. She led the chase down hill at a merry pace, away over the fiats and back up over the stock road again, where a fresh hare went away right-handed, but the hunted one having been viewed Ov golfers below the course, hounds soon had her going again, and returning to the flats she was viewed through a bunch of cattle making for the swariips. Pushing her out from the .rushes, hounds inn her into view, and pulled her clown in the open, after five and twenty minutes of a very pretty hunt.

Next Saturday, being Anzac Day. hounds will not hunt at Whatatutu. but will keep that appointment on the following Mondav, the 27th inst. i “SNAFFLES.”