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Mr. Harvey was Master, there was throughout Mr. IMaynard's 

 mastership a largely increased attendance from the Sunder- 

 land side of the country, and this continued through the com- 

 mittee period, and has not altogether ceased, though, as I 

 have explained, the Zetland and the South Durham are now 

 much more handy for the Sunderland division. What Mr. 

 Mavnard found when he came was a resident population of 

 foxhunters, and what Mr. Rogerson had to face when he took 

 hold — after the committee period was over — in 1888, was a 

 lot of big houses, either empty, or with few hunting people 

 living in them. Still, the good fields continued, for a fair 

 amount of fresh blood had joined the hunt, and there were 

 always the " young 'uns coming on," to say nothing of a 

 steady increase in the number of hunting ladi^. There was, 

 after a time, a falling off on the east side of the country, as a 

 matteir of course, for when certain parts of the country were 

 given up, so few meets were within riding distance of many 

 of the hunting folk that they were obliged to hunt by train, 

 and this meant that packs which afiorded a better train service 

 were preferred to the North Durham. The increase of indus- 

 trialism was the real cause of this state of affairs, but now the 

 hunting areas are very definitely marked, and attempt is 

 seldom made to take hounds where there is a network of rail- 

 ways, or a plethora of colliery villages. After Mr. Maynard 

 resigned fresh kennels were requisitioned at Viewley Grange, 

 on the Southill estate, owned by Colonel H. T. Fenwick, and 

 Mr. Rogerson continued to use these kennels until 1906, when 

 he built new kennels on his own property at Mount Oswald. 

 The Viewley Grange kennels were rather too far north of all 

 the most used country, and too far from the Master's residence, 

 which is on the south side of Durham. Curiously enough, 

 the new kennels are so near the old northern kennel of the 

 Durham County pack that the same house in which Dowdeswell 

 lived is used by the present kennel huntsman. In 1906 

 Freeman retired, and since then Mr. Rogerson carried 

 the horn, until, on account of his many duties in connection 

 with the war, he was obliged to surrender his task to 

 Hepple, who had been kennel hunlsonan during the previous 

 season, Mr. Rogerson's long mastership has been a most 

 successful one, during which a fine standard of sport has been 



