GOOD SHEEP DOGS

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1789, 31 July 1926, Page 7

GOOD SHEEP DOGS

IMPORTANT IMPORTATIONS. Mr James Lilico Winton, Southland, has, since January, 1925, spent over £IOOO importing dogs into New Zealand from the Mother Country. One of his recent purchases wa, ; s Mr M, iHayton’s 'Kep, sent out to him by Mr John Renwick, 'Kirkhaugh, Northumberland. Kep had done remarkably well in England, having won many money prizes and five challenge l cups. Mr J. Hunter, O'xton, Berwickshire, (the Scottish breeder and trainer, has different times sent Mr Lilico some of Scotland's best sheep dogs, as has also Mr James A. Reid, Airdrie, the secretary of the International Sheep Dog Trials Society. Mr Lilico has for a great number of years been associated with the breeding, training, and exhibiting of sheep dfogs, and, no greater authority on sheep dogs is to be found .in New Zealand. There ils stillba. great demand there for well-bred collies, and although there is a great risk in shipping dogs now to New Zealand (it costs something like £25 to take one across, which, added to the purchase price, makes it a costly job), still Mr Lilico lias found that 'it pays to buy and breed from the very best parents.