NORTH TARANAKI HUNT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 40, 27 May 1910, Page 8

NORTH TARANAKI HUNT.

YESTERDAY'S MEET. The centre of the town presented ail animated scene yesterday inorniug when the members of the North 'jfu'anaki Hunt Club mustered for the meet ut Omata. Prior to leaving for the limiting field the meet was photographed at the corner of Devon and Brouynam streets. They were entertained at lunch at the Kia "Ora tea-rooms by Messrs. IS. 11. Clianev and A. R. Standish.

The properties of Messrs. It. C'. Cle- j mow and D. Penwarden and Rev. E. Allans'on were hunted over. The wind | being verv cold the hares were lying very close, but still the hounds gavej sonie very good runs. There were several falls, but none were attended with serious consequences, and an enjoyable afternoon was spent. At the conclusion of the day's sport the members', numbering about a hundred, and including a number of ladies, adjourned to Mr. Clemow's homestead, w'here they were regaled with afternoon tea. In the evening a complimentary dinner was tendered to the club by Mr. J. McKenn. proprietor of the Criterion Hotel. The dining-room was well filled, and the members enjoyed to the full Mr. McKean's verv liberal hospitality, the dinner being excellent in every way, and the service prompt and efficient. Several of the ladies of the hunt graced the. gathering with their presence, and .remained for the handling of an impromptu toast list. The healths of the Master (Mr. A. IT. Halcoinbe), the Hunt s'man (Mr. A. Cliff) and the secretary (Mr. A. L. Humphries), and the prosperity of the Club were tonsteri with hours, and the ladies, the press, the fanners who kindly allowed the club to hunt over their properties, received] the thanks and musical honors of the ] gathering. The health of "Our Host and Hostess, Mr. and Mrs'. J McKean," was honored in bumpers. The function was most enjoyable. Several of the speeches dealt with the valu" of hunt clubs to the district ami to the Dominion, great stress beimz laid on th>» very marked improvement in the horses owned in thk district snice t'<» .it;, n 0 f the Xorth Tarawa Id Hunt Oli. !•> in nit other districts where hnntini: had taken up as a snort, by the younir farmers and lovers of horseflesh in the towns. Tile Master, in revdv to n sugsres'tion that the horses hunti'in 1 in >Torth Taranaki would eoinnavp f'lyoiviblv w>t]t <)io=e on the Fntr-li-'h luritiiiL' fields. v»marked that Knsl'ir' hn'! be-M hunting for hundreds of years. and for only a few rears, Mr. Ha'oombe left it at that.