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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2803, 20 November 1931, Page 4

That Australians are growing taller and darker, was an opinion expressed at a medical congress held in Sydney. "The blondes will vanish,” said one Sydney specialist. “Australians, with surfing, are definitely getting darker. When you have a race of people living most of the year in the sunshine, as in Australia, the skin pigment increases and the hair darkens. In a few hundred years perhaps we may be a black race.”

Now that the racing season is m full swing the splendid showing of pictures from the New Zealand Cup meeting at Riccarton, published in this week’s issue of the "New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review, will be enjoyed by all turf patrons. Our photographer also obtained an extensive series of prints of the Metropolitan Trotting Club’s spring meeting at Addington, special attention being paid to the New Zealand Trotting Cup Divisions. A charming feature that will make an instant appeal to the feminine reader is a page of spring fashions, the choice budget of stage and screen snaps of to-day, and the latest sdciety Reddings are items which will be eagerly scanned by reason of their interest to all New Zea’nnders.