BREEDING OF HORSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1938, Page 3

BREEDING OF HORSES

GOVERNMENT SCHEME. EFFECTIVELY LAUNCHED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The scheme the Government established this year for the encouragement, by way of subsidy, of the breeding of horses in New Zealand has now been effectively launched. District committees provided for in the regulations issued by the Department of Agriculture under legislation which has been dormant since 1914, have been set up in various centres of both islands and, it is reported, great interest is manifested among farmers and other breeders of horses iri the work lying ahead. Mention was riiade of the subject yesterday by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry. He told a deputation that the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, and

himself were concerned to see a high standard revived and maintained in the breeding of horses—including the utility animal—in the Dominion. “The racing clubs, through their | controlling authority, the New Zealand Racing Conference,” Mr Parry said; “have shown practical enthusiasfn in the project, giving, by their co-opera-tion. the, officials of the Department of Agriculture splendid assistance. The Racing Conference appointed MajorGeneral R. Young, former General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Military Forces, who now resides at Otaki, to organise the founding of district committees for the working of the regulations. “General Young, who is a wellrecognised authority on the breeding of horses, has rendered a fine service. I recently had the pleasure of reading one of two of the reports General Young' prepared on his investigations and conferences' in various parts of the Dominion. A very successful result has been obtained. The number of districts' formed to do the practical work under the regulations are sixteen in the North Island and twelve in the South Island. General Young say's he is confident the scheme has been introduced at an opportune time and has been taken up enthusiastically by responsible people.” The Minister said he felt convinced that the encouragement now given by the Government to the breeding of horses would be the means' of adding greatly to the numerical strength in the Dominion of a good type of horse.