COURSING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 965, 3 September 1908, Page 9

COURSING.

The North New Zealand Coursing Club bring the season to a conclusion at Middlemore Park, Otahuhu, next Saturday afternoon, when the Champion Stake, a 16-dog event, will be decided. If the stake fills properly there should be some excellent sport shown. At the Dunedin Plumpton Coursing Club’s smoke concert, strong exception was taken to the Bill now before the House concerning the stopping of Plumpton coursing. It was stated that the mortality among the hares was very tow. At the last Oamaru meeting there was only one kill throughout the whole meeting.

At Rooty Hill, Sydney, it is no uncommon occurrence to run through a meeting with only 5 per cent, of kills. There was a far greater number of hares killed in open coursing, the percentage ranging from 70 to 90 per cent. It is only one more instance of so-called legislators tinkering with subjects on which they know nothing.