THE ATTACK ON RACING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 166, 14 July 1914, Page 6

THE ATTACK ON RACING.

I (To tlie Editor* Sir, —In your i.-t-iic of .Monday. July Old you publish a "■orinon delivered 'l>y j the 'Ki>v. Howard Klliotl on tlto prcviww | Sunday, in which the npea<ker reiterates his periimlieal tirade aibout racinjr. etc Mr. lOlliott makes Uip statement that tlic people of New Zealand gaiiiiblt l four times much a* any of One Australian States, and on to <|vote ftgurci*, tin- lojdo of whWh arc not apparent to the ordinary reader. It would be intcrestiiijr U> know how tihe rev. gentleman arrives at Ilia conclusions, especially in regard to l-lia amount of £1,800.000 which he states it costs to 'win the £300,000 given in stakes. The HfTuret* jriven a> passing through the totalis-jtor mijj'ht lead souio people astray, but. unMone at nil conversant with Hip facts knows t-hat the aimount hnndlrd (by the totalisatora does not rciprnsent that in actual cash, but in represented by a mucin smaller siuu which is passed tti rough, over and over. When one <rocs into figures, it i.- easy to make them read -ail sforts of ways to suit the end required. Mr. Elliott, further on in his addrtts. static that Hie !bon.km-.iker H fupiposed to have vanished. Ibll't that it \vai- deimonstrated to ihien last wpek tiuU it was po.-isible to ring up and het '■a<l lib." J)nes tli P reverend gentleman eonsidrr it manly and Christianize to ftnnd by a 'tolephone and listen to one of hi> friends deliiberateay cfmuniit a brwiv'h of eonfidencp? No allege. , , bookmalker iwouJd bet with anyone exce.pt in confidence, especially , over a telephone, and if fcueh was <lone what can 4>e eaid o! the mvii who invites -a <-ku-<mrrmn to rtand alongside i>f him wfliile lie aeie as a traitoraadibetrajts the .trust repose<l in him. to say notlhiiirp of the 'lireacli of the law? Surely Mr. Elliott mn.vt have Yen inisreported. The .made tlial hrajninp notes, cte.. he txmittei! from the |wpers will jir'obaJdv ,Ih> jjiveii your ooilisideration. 'Mi<?ht 1 make a further »nj«re.stioii it'o the effect tli-.it you iniji'lit. for say a .iiwntli. drop tlie sjjortf matter frani yiuir amifih-fl!pprcc?at<*d S oVUk"k edition, and in its plai'p <rivi> extravts fiom the sermons preached the previuu-i .Sunday from the various ipul- I pits, the Rev. Ifo'waixl IClliott to act «a censoi-V You could lilien i-onipare the ein-ulution and jiuljre which 'the 'people want: th.it is. of course. ipreeiMiiinw yoai do nnt lcnow already. n-Tiinh very ife-w people-d.vmbt. 1 The jrpm of the fiennon. however, is in ' th,. laet -parafTraph. in Mr. Elliott ' ''■ujrjrests that the racecourse should he i ] ehtct irp. and tlie horses shipped to some ! 1 other land where they are wanted. Dn ■ ! unto others a* y:>u -woitH ha.ye them | do to you. is a. text that should \> c taken jto heart Ky iifr. Elliot-:: and he might ! explain -why his aUejcd seouxge ehariW j Ue Fhi.ppexi to same other land, in order i Ito jret it out of Hhe Bominion tr. *Mit ! his ploafure. a.red d iisappoint thmisaiiids I n-f Inrr-r* nf win;;, whn are fa I pnjor thr.niSßlrcs rJhev think fit—l I Jem, iA.'IMA2?!DEI