HORSES IN SYDNEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 12

HORSES IN SYDNEY.

REAPPEARANCE IN STREETS. BUGGIES AND SULKIES IN USE. More horses are appearing in flio suburbs of Sydney and even in city streets. There ba3 been no sweeping change; the motor still reigns as the autocrat of traffic in Sydney. The horse, however, is participating to a greater extent than a year ago. There are seen ancient vehicles of the buggy and sulky types, and occasionally a brake or drag—words unknown to young people which will be remembered by their fathers or grandfathers, who often travelled in such vehicles to races or picnics. Enthusiastic supporters of the horse declare that ho will soon bo back in large numbers, and they give thanks that horsebreeders were not all frightened out of business. Drivers of the few antiquated hansom cabs still seen about the streets, says a correspondent, may take heart of grace and dream of a time when there will be many hansoms and victorias or broughams reminiscent of bygone times. Some parsons yearn for the horso on the ground that he would provide employment, but, it is pointed out, that if carried to its logical conclusion that argument would lead to the scrapping of all machinery so that everybody might be in work.