RACING STATISTICS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18101, 17 June 1924, Page 9

RACING STATISTICS.

TO TUB EDITOB 01 "the rRE3S .., bir,—Ministers live on their characters. A minister who should twist or corrupt figures to gain a debating point would, in our ethic, be beneath contempt. You insinuate in your leader to-uay that I have done all these tilings. I have lived in all some twenty years in Christchurch, and my character has probably been gauged by my fellow citizens-alike by those who agree with me and those who timer from me. i ua-yo iokl with perfect candour where tne figures you complain of came from Lliey appeared in the correspondence column of several local papers, and so far as I have seen, were not challenged. They are cor-rouonu-ad bv fi quotations from this year s furf Guardian Handbook, publisned in the review of that book by a leauing London journal and which camo to me by last mail. I have placed the review in the hands of the Archoishnp. My correspondent indicates that it is fr.-iin the* "Chronicle." it is not impossible that he mav have mistaken the paper, but it is" not WPSiiue th;».t the quotation is incorrect, ihe Turf Guardian Society stands comnfitted to the esiimate ' that for gambling purposes there are alout 200 rare days in Britain. They also stand crintmUtd to an estimate of the bulk ot done in that countrv, winch woks out at one-third of the per capita rate in the Dominion. T have nothing more to say on the ppint. My concern is that the people should look .squarely at the issues pre-M-iueci by the threefold demand for uicre-isea "ambhnjr facilities, in the Oovem.nent_Uin.-i,, th-a race club demands, and n the request of the newspaper proprietors.—Yours, etc., - r-w.f > i t J - J - NORTH. Chvistchurch, Juno ]6th. L"mo s!, a ]| not at present comment on t.ie above letter, or upon the pro(wnings at last uighfs meeting of the Council of Ch'i.stian Conore'eations. We are, for the same rehson. holding oiver a letter criticising Mr Xorth.-Ed. "The Press.'"]