HUNTING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 564, 22 June 1933, Page 6

HUNTING

ROTORUA FOLLOWERS HAVE QUIET DAY WITH HOUNDS A VERY WILY HARE A quiet day's hunting is the summing up of yesterday's meet of the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty Hunt Club. At 12.30 p.m., after assembling at the R.M. corner, the pack moved off to Mr. H. 'Hardcfastle's farm, Old Taupo Road, where hounds were immediately cast, but to no effect. fContinuiing on through Mr. H. Ford's property, a strong hare was eventually disturbed from a piece of swampy ground towards the rear of Mr. Robertson's homestead. This hare, however, knew all the tricks of evading a pack, for after making a semi-circular run of about half a mile, it suddenly turned in an unexpected d.rection to cross a bridge. This led it on the Sunset Road where, not satisfied with the check that would ensue dn the strip of cover on either side, it elected to run j straight up the road toward the hills'. Here the quarry found the most dense piece of cover in the whole locality and left the road abruptly where scent could not possibly lie and hounds stopped and looked at each oth'er as though they had been following a phantom. A false alarm was given by Brush- . wood when much to the disgust of the I others, a. cat ran through the under- j growth and jumped .up a tree. 1 A cold win'd was now rising and although gully after gully was drawn for the remainder of the afternoon, not a whiff of a hare'kept the pack interested. An interesting feature of the afternoon, was the number of horses "qi^alifying" for the forthcoming hunt club races, and an interested spectator was Miss Sybil Harker, who is • Master of the Norwich StagHounds, England.