A DEAD CERT. FOR TRENTHAM

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 99, 23 October 1924, Page 12

A DEAD CERT. FOR TRENTHAM

A TIP FOR THE SPRING MEET- • ING.

(By "Punter.")

I have made my selections for the Trentham Meeting. I am not of the Strong, Silent Breed, which condemns the sport of kings. I am far too human (although my wife doesn't always call it that). But I have.made one selection, based on infallible inside information, which is the safest thing that moderate punters and wise men, ever struck. We New Zealanders juggle with far too much money on racecourses. "With a surprising disdain for ordinary com-mon-sense, we prefer exciting investments to safe ones. A "DARK HOESE." I am going to suggest that you lay just over a fiver on a "certainty"—a "certainty1* so certain that the New Zealand Government is prepared to give a parchment guarantee" that it will win. You will be wise to lay your odds before you leave for Trentham on Monday; It is ten to one that you will regret our omission if you return home on Labour Day with the knowledge that you let this opportunity slip. But before I name the "horse" that I am talking about^ let me size up this business of-long odds versus "solid "investments. END OF A "PERFECT" (?) DAY. How many times have you gone out" to Trentham or elsewhere with a pocket full of money and a soul full of hope, and returned at the end of a perfect-^?) day, tired, hungry, and "broke"? Personally I couldn't count the occasions. How many times 'have you consistently backed a certain horse while it was losing race" after race, and then when you finally' discarded it "home it rolled" at any old price? How many people do you know who have actually made money from racing? This isn't pious catechism—it's the sort of self-examina-tion I made when, I first heard of Post Office Investment : Certificates. THIS IS THE "TIP." Put a little of your "punting" money in Post Office Investment Certificates. Buy one of these certificates before you go to" Trentham. You'll enjoy your day all the more. It will give, you a wonderful sense of satisfaction—especially ,when you are on your way home! —to .'know that you have placed £7 16s 8d on a "certainty" which will, without fail, pay you £10 in five years' time. CANDIDLY SPEAKING. Quite frankly—don't you owe rU-to the wife and kiddies to invest a little of that surplus cash in something more solid than a "hunch"? "Why not buy just one P.O. Investment Certificate? It's as easy to buy as a_ postage stamp; there are no formalities.;' nothing to sign. The "tip" is so good that i £50,----000,000 worth of these certificates have already been purchased. You are making a deal with the Treasury—it couldn't be more gilt-edged; and the Treasury's agent—the General Post Offices —will give you a thief-proof receipt. / CERTAINLY—GO TO ' TRENTHAM. Go to the meeting by all means—but for sanity's sake—for your pocket's 'sake—for everybody's sake—buy an Investment Certificate first. There are two sorts. One costs £7 16s Bd, and will be worth £10 in five years' time: the other costs £6 3b. 4d, and will be worth £10 in ten years' time. Buy one of these; then, no matter what your luck at the meeting (and I sincerely hope that it will be good) you wiil know that you have made at least dna sound investment which is dependent on neither "form," stable, nor any of the dozen other vagaries of the racecourse.. Here's to a happy holiday!— (Published by arrangement.)