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Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 July 1915, Page 3

Evidently the Taranaki women are capable of taking the places left by our good soldiers who have gone to the front. One woman last 'week went oift into the paddock, caught a horse bridled it' saddled it and got across. With oilskin coat and sou'west covering stockwhip laced to the saddle pommel, she rode into Opunake, followed at heel iby two dogs. On arriving at Opunake she perceived calves in the pound from off the farm. Pulling up her steed she just did .what the men do—cursed and swore—and then hunted up the poundkeeper. Two young men—one from (Rangitikei and the other from 'Sandon—recently enlisted for service as mounted troopers. One was practically born in the saddle, alul lias spent most of nis life on horseback. The other is ■ one of the best and most sought after gentleman steeplechase riders in New Zealand, and has won more cross-country races than he ean remember. Yet they were both rejected, says, the Feilding Star, Ibecause they failed to pass their riding teste.