PEDIGREE PERCHERONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 16

PEDIGREE PERCHERONS

IMPORTS FROM AUSTRALIA

KADLUNGA STUD MARES Two Percheron mares, purchased by Miss Winifred Lysnar from Mr. A. J. Melrose's Kadlunga stud, Mintaro, South Australia, were landed at Wellington yesterday by the Awatea, and are to be railed and trucked to their new home by the most direct route. They will join the Kadlunga Templar, the Percheron stallion imported by Miss Lysnar in 1937 and who has done exceedingly well since arriving in New r Zealand. The mares landed at Wellington today are believed to be the first of their breed imported into New Zealand. They will he used for breeding for farm and utility purposes. The breed is unusually versatile, for according to the type of mare used it produces light or heavy utility horses and also weight-carrying hacks and hunters, this class of mount being a Percheron cross on a thoroughbred mare. Miss Lysnar was recently able to purchase as a brood mare a fine halfPercheron heavy draft mare, nine years old, by an imported Percheron which unfoctunately met with an accident and was killed before he had been long in New Zealand. This mare has been owned for several years by She Napier Timber Company at Mohaka, where it has given excellent proof of the stamina and traotability of the breed, which is represented in New Zealand by tn"ree stallions in addition to Miss Lysnar's Kadlunga Templar. The other three are owned respectively toy Mr. R. Burke. Ngatea, Mr. T. Hewitson, Upper Moutere, a.nd Mr. F. A. Hull. Hawke's Bay. Before being shipped for New Zealand, the new importations were matecl with Histon Grey Friar, a magnificent sire recently imported from England by the owner of the Kadlunga stud.