A KEEN SPORTSWOMAN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19463, 9 November 1928, Page 2

A KEEN SPORTSWOMAN.

(UaiTUS PEEBS ASSOCIATION—B? ELBCTHItf TBIdSQBAPH—COPZRIOHT.)

(Received November Bth, 5.6 p.m.) LONDON, November 7. Miss Fay Taylor; a ilieoe of Lord Riddel, and the first woman dirt "track rider, will leave for Australia on November 24th by the Euripides. She is an all-round sportswoman, and is most keen on dirt track riding, in which she holds many records. —Australian Press Association. v

Small towns and wayside villages in I Now Zealand, says the "Dominion, as elsewhere in the World, have long ago discovered that the fast-moving motor-car is a deterrent to trade. In the old days of coach-driving such places were utilised as copvenient stop-ping-places for meals, and to bait or change horses. But the. coach has gone, and in its place is the speedy motor-car. This, has had a serious on certain aspects of trade.' A restaaranteur, who has just given up business in Wellington, said that _it "was once a common thing to provide 400 meals on the evening of a race day in Wellington, but nowadays country folk who used to put up m town, have their motor-cars and return home to the Wairarapa or even to places on the Plimmerton-Waikanae side, the same evening. The experience oi hotelkeepers is the same. Race days in Wellington used to mean a shortage of accommodation, but t&e motor-car is in such general use by country people that a meeting at Trentham means very slight accession to the ordinary demand for accommodation.