One man's meal
In his "Travels hr New Zealand.” published in 1846. Alexander Majorlbanks wrote scathingly about the lifestyle of many new settlers in the young colony. "It i» curious.” he wrote, "that the English cannot settle down quietly, even In a new country, without wasting their time and money on those two most absurd of al! absurdities — horse races and public dinners. When beef was Is 4d a lb one would suppose that the people might have been better employed sowing a little clover or turnip seed for their cattle than in drinking a long list of absurd toasts or setting a parcel of dumb animals to run against each other, particularly in a country where, with scarcely any roads, it is no early consequence whether a horse can gallop 20 miles an hour, or 20 yards.”
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Press, 5 August 1976, Page 7
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138One man's meal Press, 5 August 1976, Page 7
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