Molesworth
Sir, —It is time the Molesworth bubble was pricked. I can think of a dozen men quite capable of managing that show. One man, not 100 miles up the Ashburton river, in addition to his own effi-ciency-plus station, could manage Herefords along the whole Southern Alps range from Farewell Spit to Milford Sound as well as own, train, and ride the fourth horse in the next Grand National. His first job would be to take over Molesworth for a bull paddock. Only one stipulation: no county rates,
income tax, land tax. No donations whatever to local hall, A. and P., R.S.A., Hermitage, cricket, tennis, football, collie, Plunket, National Party, etc. Appropriate to a half-million quid capital value station. In fact, absolute assurance of everything from everybody, even unto grog. And what about overdraft arrangements with the stock firm for Molesworth? That would take the skite out of that set-up.— Yours, etc., OPEN ROAD. April 7, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31030, 9 April 1966, Page 14
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