SUMMER STAKES REDUCED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1931, Page 6

SUMMER STAKES REDUCED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, 13th October. The statement of accounts for the recent spring meeting, showing a loss, I although Government taxation amounted to £5548, was presented to the conimitteo of tho Auckland Racing Club to-day.

The summer meeting prize money will bo less than that of lust year by £5550, the proposed total for the four days bciug £,IS,oOO, against £23,550 last year. The reduction is 23 per cent., which is considered less than the general drop in the totalisator turnover.

When the moon rises, when the hook catches for the twentieth time in the bushes; when the fish will not rise; then, it is hoped, the good fisherman will not give vent to baser feelings, but instead hie himself to some sheltered spot and smoke a pipe of peace. There, under the soothing influence of a glowing bowlful of Edgeworth Tobacco, fishing troubles are smoothed over, the tangled line almost untangles itself, and fish that will not rise to your fly of flies seem more to bo pitied than cursed. So, to the soft accompaniment of murmuring water and rustling trees we leave you—an unsuccessful angler, but a thoroughly happy man. —Advt.

Life's pendulum swings from good to bad. As oscillation 'twixt sad aud glad; The clock runs down and the motion dies, A state of calm stagnation implies. Life's pendulum swings 'twixt well and ill, To-day a fever, to-night a chill; But the consolation for colds, be sure, Is always Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt.