PINING FOR WELLINGTON.
Mr Hunt rode again at another race meeting and was again injured in a fall He moved on to Guatemala, then San Salvador and Belize, British Honduras. In the last-named place every day seems to he Sunday. Nobody worked and they seemed to live on bananas and fresh water. “It was the most poverty-striclv-on hole in the world, so 1 returned to Jamaica. Things are very bad herb'at present, but 1 think 1 will stay until the end of the year and make my way home to Wellington. At our last races I rode one winner and eight seconds —which, was very aggravating. If it had been vice versa I would by this time be on my way back to the Windy City. New Zealand is the only place for me. I shall not go in for racing either, I have had my fill of it. The weather here is extremely hot. . It just roasts your fa e during the day and the mosquitoes eat you-alive at night. Still I keep my peckpV: up.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1930, Page 6
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177PINING FOR WELLINGTON. Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1930, Page 6
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