£8,500,000 A YEAR FOR HUNTING.
Half a million pounds is the amount spent yearly on hunting in Ireland , according to Mr F. Barbour, who spoke at a meeting of the Irish hunt-club delegates in Dublin lately. Ireland, he said, waa hunted by*69 pncks of foxhounds, harriers, and staghounds, with 1800 couples of . dogs. The number of horses kept in connection with the hunt establishments waa at least 450, and he estimated the cost of maintaining those horses and the dogs at £65,000 a year. Tnat sum did njt include masters* expenses. At a low computation the rent and maintenance o£ coverts and cost of earth-stopping and deerfinding would abount to £SOOO a year. Quite 3750 people hunted with the packs, each of whom would spend at the lowest £IOO yearly on their horses, hunting outfit, subscriptions, and travelling, making a total of £375,000. The expenditure for the whole of the United Kingdom, said Mr Barbour, had been estimated at over £8.500,000 a year.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10063, 8 June 1910, Page 3
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163£8,500,000 A YEAR FOR HUNTING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10063, 8 June 1910, Page 3
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