PAKURANGA HUNT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 451, 5 September 1928, Page 11

PAKURANGA HUNT

RECORD RUN AT FLAT BUSH

HARES PLENTFUL, BUT ELUSIVE A good field of huntsmen met the Pukuranga hounds at the Flat Bush School yesterday, and they were rewarded with one of the best runs of the season, which extended over ten miles. Hares were plentiful, but in each instance they managed to find shelter. A number of horses with empty saddles were noticed careering round the fields, but none of the spills was of a serious nature. Mr. PI. Bul-lock-Webster, master of the hunt, was in charge, and included in the visitors were Mr. J. Selby, huntsman of the Christchurch hounds, Miss Lowry, of the Hawke’s Bay Hunt, and Master J. Hansford, from the Waikato. The hounds were thrown off in Mr. C. Rutherfod’s bush, and after a short draw they put up a good stout hare, which after circling round Mr. Rutherford’s property, led the pack through the farms of Messrs. Blakes, Stonex Bros., and into Mr. C. Murphy’s property. Here the scent crossed with several other hares, and the hounds were worked off. A return visit was made to Mr. Rutherford’s, and another quarry was soon raised. It led the way through Messrs. Ormiston’s and James Ross’s, where it crossed the road into Mr. C. Murphy’s, and made back for the bush. The hounds worked this locality for some time, and sent another hare away for a ten miles’ spin, heading through the farms of Messrs. Adamson, Murphy, Lou. Gillard and J. Baker. Here it crossed the road into Messrs. Stonex farm, and on through Gordon Gilliards’s, where it crossed another road into Knappings’s, and J. Ross's. Crossing and recrossing the road it was again driven through Murphy’s bush, and on through the farms of Messrs. Adamson, Thoramson, McKerras and out on to the Redoubt Road into Kelsey’s. It found shelter for a while in some bush on the rear of the property, and after being worked out it made through Mr. Alex. Swaffield’s holding and was finally lost within sight of the concrete road at WirL

A splendid variety of obstacles was encountered throughout the runs, and some of the exhibitions of jumping give promise of good sport at the point-to-point, to be held at the middle of the month at Papatoetoe.