MORE NEW ZEALAND HORSES FOR THE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2913, 8 November 1916, Page 6

MORE NEW ZEALAND HORSES FOR THE FRONT

—: » A GOOD REPUTATION 1 . The remount branch of the Defence Department, of which Colonel Reakes is in charge, is now buying horses in numbers, getting together another shipment for the front. They are being assembled in the Remount Depot at Upper Hutt. Tho fighting in the desert in which our Mounted Brigade were engaged some time ago used up a. number of horses, presumably because they had to bo riddon hard under the hottest sun, without water very often, and possibly on slender rations. / The New Zealand horses at tho front in France have established something of a reputation for quality.'_ Our horses there are mostly for the artillery teams, although tlere are somo light horses for the squadron of Otago Mounteds who are with the Division, and the Remount Department always has claimed that our artillery horses are very good sorts. Some time ago a horse show was held behind the lines at the front. Colonel Reakes lias received a letter from an officer in which the writer makes the .following referenoes to tho show and tho horses: —"Tho New Zealand horses were greatly admired. One of the judges, a British officer, stated that there were none better in tho Army. . . • You will bo interested to learn that the horses of the New Zealand Division are much admired by A.D.'s V.S. in the Imperial Army Veterinary Corps."