Horse Boxes At Riccarton

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31383, 31 May 1967, Page 14

Horse Boxes At Riccarton

Sir,-1 congratulate the Canterbury Jockey Club on erecting loose boxes and yards on their property, Racecourse road. These boxes and yards are no doubt an asset to visiting trainers and at a later date to local trainers. Some years ago Riccarton was considered to be one of the finest training centres in New Zealand,'but now, owing to high costs and residential and industrial zoning, trainers have been forced to move elsewhere or to give up. training. To the “Irate Residents” who have written to your paper, I suggest that after 46 years in Racecourse road they are due for a move, in any case. Should the council approve a park in Racecourse road, hot rods, Mods and Rockers will move them out Then, horses going down the street would be appreciated.—Yours, etc., BLACK BESS. May 30, 1967. Sir,—ln reply to “Let Live,” residents of Racecourse road do not wish to hinder the progress of the racing industry. We ask that the Canterbury Jockey Club show us a little kindness and consideration by not building their proposed horse boxes along the Racecourse road frontage. Might I suggest that the club clear some of its'broom-infested land at the rear of the recently-erected visitors’ boxes, and build the new stables there, where they would worry nobody? The valuable Crown land at the corner of Racecourse and Yaldhurst roads could • then be made available to the . Paparua County Council to i develop into a much-needed i sports and recreational area to serve all the people of this rapidly-growing neighbourhood. The Canterbury Jockey Club would still have many ’ hundreds of acres available : for future use.—Yours, etc., IRATE RESIDENT 11. : May 29, 1967.

[This correspondence is now closed.—Ed., “The Press.”] Exports To Poorer Nations

Sir,—The suggestions made by Mr Kirk to the Chartered Institute of Secretaries that New Zealand could pay its producers some of the costs of production of exports to poorer nations need more ' clarification. How will other I countries and our own con- ! burners view what Is virtually I a subsidy on export prices? I If he would indicate that his • party would undertake to rei diice prices within the couni try without taking the cost I out of taxation, he could

attract the Social Credit vote and easily become our next Prime Minister. Bqt—and it is a very big but—he would have to give very firm undertakings that he kne'w what he was doing and how he would do it before voters would take thp risk of trusting him as they trusted Mr Savage in 1935.—Yours, etc., W. B. BRAY. Leeston, May 26, 1967.