TOO MUCH HORSE RACING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 11

TOO MUCH HORSE RACING.

v ;.v-(By.,Telegraph.—Speolal Correspondent.) ; . ' r ' • Auckland* November 6.-*■ 1 /■; Mr. .Foster- Eraser told - tho...gathering that > welcomed him to Auckland that-ho. had been j - struck: l : : with. tho-Venormous' enorgy of .our ; - pioneers./Ho .liad seen' some of the bushland 1 and. compared "it with. that, which was unddr ;; ; cultivation,'and he had .only to seo tins and '■ .note the difference; the tremendi bus energy'. that, Must have been 1 expended .to , bringiabout this change and get the laud ready' !■•' for cultivation. "But/" he said,- "what 1 want . • to.know i9;-I;rthis cnorgy going. to continue?; I go through tha country, and everywhere .1 .go,.in every little town, I seo..a-racecourses and, >in'not;'a single instance in; the whole of the- '* col-, -i l6gtiV. '.l ; '"havß''n6thirig'v to ' say ; against'-horsc- ■ * v rac I fig)' , 'bijt;''thW : Ms''iiot k the ■;> : develop tlii.v country.' •' Neiv.-Zealand' is not going ,to ; cohtinuei'tb he .the great .coitiiti'y she. '. •i 3 .byvliaving, only .racecourses'.*',' .(Applause.), •i : v^^ : '.to-.-o»o':.thirig,^howfi^r,-..''3cliicK<. : Mr,. ~ '.3?raseiy laid. de- , yolopmcht.- of. this^.cbuiitryi-a^djil-h'at.'wayjthat: 'Zb'iland would any ; ; otho'r-, pen..than tliosii'-'Df '>the'-,British" stock. - ( (Applauifi.). ' ? It' - is. feaitlse ljiAve travollcd so. r - much and seen 6Uch rtUcjt. ot .tho British Em- ; . pire," ; he'. continued;, "and -•-liiivo':studied: : . : various condition's prevailing 'that'niy political' j . opinibn-s.-ara' what.,th l 'I ' kmfjiQfKcomifig" odfcTas-a-Unionist,'ll6' added,." alluding;-io 'liis ' candidature jrt 'Homo. .. VJ am going -.invas.ia, Unionist." . (Laughter.) , 'He. ' .thouglit'-ihat it would bo.woll if.all mohibers ,ofi iarliam.ent;'/-beforo. ."being - allowed to . take. ,their in fact, beforothey wore '.. allowed 'tb..becoiho' should!bo forced' '. tlibvßritislv:Empirei.;(Ap- ; ; plaiisc.). v-t- t -,>