FIRST IN DOMINION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 4 November 1939, Page 2

FIRST IN DOMINION

PURE-BRED PERCHERONS FAOLED AT AROWHANA The first pure-bred Percherons to be foaled in New Zealand are running at Arowhnna station, and are making promising progress. They are the progeny of Kadlunga Tonga, which dropped a filly foal on October 21, and Kadlunga Stella, which foaled a colt on November 2. The foals are sired by the magnificent Porcheron Ifiston Great Friar, which took junior and supreme championship honours at the English Royal Show in 1032, and was purchased later by Mr. Alex ,1. Melrose for the Kadiunga Stud, in South Australia. Both Tonga and Stella, the dams of the new foals are by Rhuin, a sire unbeaten in France and England, and also imported into South Australia by Mr. Melrose, from whose stud they were purchased by Miss Winifred Lysnar, Gisborne.

Early this year, Miss Lysnar made a purchase in New Zealand of a tine half-Percheron heavy draft mare for breeding purposes, and Show patrons will have the opportunity of studying this representative of the breed in the draught classes next week. The mare is now about nine years old, and was got by a Porcheron stallion, imported into Hawke’s Bay by Mr. Mason Chambers. The sire, unfortunately, was killed in an accident not long after his arrival in the Dominion. Miss Lvsnar’s purchase of the marc was made from the Napier Timber Company, which had had it working at Mohaka, where it had given ample proof of the stamina and tractability of the breed.