Correspondence. Correspondents' opinions are not neces sarily ours. HUNTING IN WAIMATE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 153, 24 May 1900, Page 2

Correspondence. Correspondents' opinions are not neces sarily ours. HUNTING IN WAIMATE.

TO THB EDITOR. m .Sir,— Allow me to explain, briefly, the circumstances tinder which the

South Canterbury Harriers are hunfcicj in this district. I ask thi<? as in yos report of part of my speech her&oj Monday last I am made to say vluj was very far from ray mind. Tfo hounds are to hunt in this district fi^ times during this .season, and thl district iej to pay the same sum pjj meet as it cost the club per meet d hunt about Tinaaru — a very fair ofi« considering the distance the hounif come. I have, in former years guaranteed this money to the club, »n4" the district has always backed tn& a£ so that I have not been called on fo| more than an ordinary subscription of a few guineas. Consequently, beyond this guarant°e, the hounds can-) not be said to be hunting here? "at my own expense," and I te, gret, if others besides your reportefwent away with this idea. What t undoubtedly had in ray mind, was to 1 , excuse myself (if excuse were necessary^ for the somewhat prominent position \< had taken up as regards hunting in this district ; but the fact of beinj-j financially backed up two years showi? me that I was not far wrong in wn estimate of the public opinion as re^ gards this matter. I may add thaP there are now three members a(< the committee of the South: Canterbury Hunt Club from thii district, whereas three years ago then was only one. I should like also to" mention that all subscriptions go through the Club's books in Timaru,' Thanking you for giving me space Jo' make this one correction. — I am, etc,i Mostyn Jones. \ Akatere, May 23rd, 1900. ' ]