HUNT CLUB MEET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 4

HUNT CLUB MEET

IDEAL CONDITIONS BEST DAY FOR YEARS MANY FOLLOWERS OUT Conditions were ideal on Saturday, when hounds met at the Awapuni grass road in brilliant sunshine. This was the second meeting over this popular country and the large number of followers, having still in mind the splendid opening meet of the season, anticipated a good day's hunting. Hounds first drew Rapanui and in a few minutes raised a hare in the dividing swamp. After a little dodging in the rushes hounds forced her into the open country and she made away at a merry pace* towards the aerodrome, turning right-handed at the boundary and taking the road double into Mr. Forshaw's. where the run was temporai'ilv held up in the rough. Hounds soon had' her out again, when she made straight back into Rapanui and down into the swamp. Hounds, however, gave her no breather and drew her out again when she turned and with hounds racing her hard she took them over almost exactly the came course and returned again to the middle swamp in Eapanui. Unforgettable Sight Here hounds faltered, but the hare apparently was taking no risks, for at the end of the swamp hounds picked up the scent again, heading followers were here privileged to see a sight which no hound lover would readily forget. The fast young hounds took charge and, with Juno leading, raced across the beautiful green Rapanui flats in perfect fan formation, driving ahead of the leading followers like an unsettled cloud, across into Mr. Langford's, where the hare eluded hounds, which, after a few minutes of fruitless work, were lifted.

Returning to Rapanui. however, a fresh hare was raised and after 30 minutes of as fast a hunting as local followers have had for years she was killed in the Rapanui central paddocks. She was no sooner broken mp than another hare sprang afoot, running the exact course taken by the former hare until she too, found sanctuary at the back of the Matawhero Hall. Followers then returned to the starting point, where all voted the day one of the most successful for years, and enjoyed the welcome picnic tea prepared by the ladies. Mr. H. H. Dods thanked Mr. Jobson and the other farmers over whose property they had * limited and said that they" had had a splendid day's hunting. Hounds would meet next Saturday at Manutuke. Followers and Spectators Among the large number of followers were Messrs. H. H. Dods, master of the hunt, J. Jobson, deputy master, M. O'Donnell, R. Morley, W. Hale, W. McLean, M. Eraser, C. Fraser, g. Brace, F. Bruce, L. Woodward, M. Moore, T. Williams, A. Cane, F. Calder, B. Dalton, R. Tietjen, E. Rhodes, and J. Hale; Masters N. Woodward and D. Redstone; Mesdames H. R. Williams and E. Rhodes; Misses L. Hood, B. McKenzie, J. Rutledge, P. Burke, E. Murphy, E. Williams, J. Bloomfield, D. Hansen, W. Fenton, M. Murphy, J. Redstone, S. Ormerod, M. Fraser and June Dods.

The large gathering of spectators, who had a splendid view of the hunt, included Mr. and Mrs. R. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. T. McCallum (Hamilton), Mr. and Mrs. C. Reid. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. Skeet, Mr. and Mrs. T. Fraser; Mesdames II 11. Dods, J. Jobson. C. Cray, R. Dods, L. Woodward, Woodward, sen., G. Parker, W. L. Irwin, C. Tietjen, Sutherland, Bruce, F. R. Ball, F. Lange, G. Bloomfield, B. Burke and 11. G. Wellborne; Misses A. Gray, X. Hansen. M. Murphy, J. Tietjen, R, Clelland, and E. Dalton; Messrs. R. K. Murphy, L. Bruce, J. Tietjen, Dalton. R. P. Barker and E. C. Ball (England)