25 YEARS AGO
The Khaki Meeting At
Trentham (From “The Dominion,” Jan. 21, 1915.) What will in all probability go down in the history of the Wellington Racing Club as the “Khaki Meeting,” drew a very large attendance of the public yesterday to' the picturesque course under the hills at Trentham. One does not usually associate a race meeting with the military, but it will be next to impossible to disassociate the year that Pavlova won the Wellington Cup from the remarkable spectacle that formed the pre-, hide to the meeting. The parade ot troops, without arms, began at 11.39 a.m., when the head of the long brown column was seen to cuter the racecouise between the pine trees on the southern side, having inarched in good order from the tented field a quarter of a mile away. As company by company passed tlie grandstand, volleys of applause rang out, showing spontaneously the admiration the spectacle created. * # «
The Police Commissioner of West Australia in his annual report advocates the totalizator as the least harmful form of racecourse betting.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 98, 19 January 1940, Page 8
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