ABOLISH BLINKERS!
" What tie origin of blinkers may have been we do not know for certain." say a the " Animal’s Friend." “It has been said that certain leaders of society started, them because they made a convenient and conspicuous field on which to display the family crest. Other people say that they are used because they prevent a horse from shying, but this is not borne out by the facts, and is certainly not a reason, but an excuse, invented to justify an old prejudice. There is no reason why horses should wear blinkers, as is shown by tho fact that there are tens of thousands of horses at the present time working quite satisfactorily without them, not only in piivate carriages, but in cabs, vans, and omnibuses, -and that in towns where the traffic is thickest. No riding horse 'is ever seen with blinkers; they would be considered to lock ridiculous with them; the draught horses in the army do not wear them; and the large brewers and the chief railway companies have long ago dispensed with them.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7446, 22 May 1911, Page 6
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179ABOLISH BLINKERS! New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7446, 22 May 1911, Page 6
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