THE HORSE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10065, 10 June 1910, Page 4

THE HORSE.

Twenty years back the Wairarapa was celebrated for its horse breeding, for it 3 hacks, coach horses and draughts, The railway, the bicycle, the motor car, have all helped to kill the demand for horses until breeding ha 3 become unprofitable. Masterton was noted for its splendid draught horses, and when ploughing matches were in favour some very fins tsams turned out, sufficiently good to attract visitors from a distance, including the then Governor of the Colony. Considerable msney was brought to the Wairarapa by the sale of horses, and is was in this district breeds for the Governor's carriage were bought on several occasions. It is gratifying to learn that there is a revival of the demand for horses, and that from Australia. Messrs Hoult and Sons, of Feilding, the well-known and enterprising firm of horse-dealers, have already sent this season to Australia 530 horses, 80 of which have been secured in the Wairarapa district through their local agent, Mr James Ewari', who hps kindly furnished these facts. Within the past few days between forty and fifty heavy and medium draught horses have been despatched for shipment by the s. s. Maitai, which leaves on Thursday next, for Australia. Messrs Hoult express themselves as being highly pleased with the stamp of horse secured, but if the farmers of the Wairarapa wish to have an Australian outlet for Iheir surplus draughanimals, they must revert to the heavy type of horse that the Wai. rarapa used f b3 celebrated fort The lately fashionab'e clean-legged horse the Australians will not look at. The revival of horse-breeding will greatly benefit the Wairarapa as a whole—Masterton in particular.