POVERTY BAY HOUNDS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17057, 11 June 1926, Page 3

POVERTY BAY HOUNDS.

MEET AT AWAPUN'T. v (By " SnalUcs.") Amongst the huge field which assembled'at Awapuni on Wednesday were , a couple of good sportsmen who had ridden the 35 odd miles from beyond What.itnlti. and ibey were rewarded by one or two good gallops. Contrary Id expectations (owing to the fact that a sharp white frost was just, going away) there was evidence from the first of a holding scent A hare being quickly on foot in the swamps led the hounds at a merry pace over the good galloping country to the Makaraka dance hall, where she' turned right-handed to the back of Mr. Paviour's garden and right-handed again over the racecourse, where they killed her in the public enclosure, . x

After a long jog hack to the To Hapara end of the; swamps, another hare led us a, circle on a. somewhat, similar line, and returned to the To Hapara racecourse, where she heat us somewhere near the furlong post, evidently getting down in the rough grass. A hare found after lunch look a disappointing line towards the town. Then, after a long blank draw, a hare jumped up in a little bit of rough lying near the Awannni stock road, and the hounds ran her fast to the Mutawhcro road. There they checked, but, bitting it off across the road, they ran nicely over ■a 'good line of country t'o the low end of the Willows road, whore she must have turned short hack, as the hounds mccked here and we. got news of her having gone straight hack to Awapuni. so the master gave the order for home.

The going was excellent, being sufficiently soft, yet allowing the horses to gallop on top of the ground, and theire jvas op-iita a su ;ienoy p{ " tapping" throughout, the day. From the meet, at the kennels on Saturday it. is intended to hunt the country known as " Poynter's."