Night Trotting
Sir, —I cannot agree with the statement made by a member of the Forbury Trotting- Club at its recent members’ meeting at Dunedin, that “trotting as a day sport was losing its glamour.” Night trotting is bound to have its phase with centralising the sport, as a danger to other smaller clubs. I do hope that the Canterbury clubs will not be influenced with this bug. There is nothing better anywhere than the Cup meeting at Addington in November, where young and old people and invalids are catered for to relish their bit of fun in brilliant sunshine and can meet old friends and enjoy their day's outing. This should be the purpose of the sport generally, instead of making it into an Americafeteed night gambling institution. As for the financial part of the business, it is no secret that the weekly taxation reductions from the paypackets of the rank and file has left 'them with little to play with —hence reduced tote turnovers.— Yours, etc.,
OLD PATRON. Greymouth, June 23, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29240, 25 June 1960, Page 3
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