POVERTY BAY HOUNDS
The hounds left on Thursday for the coast to hunt to-day and on Monday m the Pouawa country. Mr. C. Parkinson, the Huntsman, had the ill fortune to sustain a. heavy fall at Taruheru last Saturday, resulting in several fractured ribs that will prohibit ridin.r for a week or two and m the interim the Whipper-in, Mr. C. Selby, is carrying the horn. ft is manv years since |he I'ounwa country has" heard (lie cry of hounds, and keen interest i» being shown locally in the advent, of the pack, for which ovary nossible preparation has been made by the sporting landowners and bunting people in that district who should, with any luck at all. receive at least some excellent sport iii return for their endeavors to promote it. Enquiry at the kennels elicits the fact that a picked pack of eleven couple of only tin; best, hounds bus been sent up there, end with the recent rains the Huntsman considers thai scenting conditions in I lie lull country should be ideal. It only remains now lor the wel weather'to hold off sufficiently for followers lo be abl« to spend a really enjoyable week-end's* sport.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 15
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