"WEARISOME INTERVALS"
'Australians would find some meetings in New j Zealand rather wearisome,! owing to the lohg, intervals -between races, says a, Sydney writer. For instance, at the meetiing Jiffld at Trentham^ in honour; of the I)Uke 6f Gloucester's visit, the first race' of soyeii kas ru'ni at 12.55 p.m., and ..the last at!s'22f th"c shortest interval between, any two ijaces being forty minutes. This state of affairs is due to consideration, of totalisator iiveators,1 but if; clubs reduced. the intervals,; to half an .hour, or even, thirty-five minuses, totalisafor punters,., after. being crowded' out a few times, "would . adapt thomselveS'tothe new orderof thingSi -At Victoria Park, (Sydney); on December 26, fhe , first > of, ten races on the programme was run at 12.30 p.m.,- and the last,at 4.30 p.m.
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Evening Post, Issue 6, 8 January 1935, Page 4
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