THOUGHTS OF THE TIMES.
SPORT AND ADVERSITY
With the rest of N.Z. the sports of racing and. trotting have been feeling the pinch of adversity. That this should be so really goes to show that they are- closely bound up with the life of the community. The turf had its heyday along with everything else in the post-war years but in these more straightened times' it has to tighten its belt with .the rest. It may sound paradoxical but this parallelism of the sporting with the general economic life of the country is a sign of the fundamental health of the sport. ’Were racing to prosper while all else languished, it would he a sure indication that it had secured an ..unhealthy hold. It would be exerting the same sort of tryanny as drugs do, the addict sacrificing essentials to satisfy a consuming appetite. But the facts show that racing does not exert a.n excessive pull on the community purse. Indeed the totalisator returns teem to have decreased in great proportion than the shrinkage in the national income. —The Dominion.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1931, Page 4
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