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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16321, 3 January 1924, Page 8

In some parts of the United Elates they take. •• their horse-racing very seriously, according to Mr. T. Gee. a former member of the Canterbury Land Board, who lias returned from a visit fo Europe and America. While* in San Francisco, Mr. Gee attended an in-, augural meeting of the Sun Fa ran racecourse*—a. meeting that extended for 1 wenty-eight days. Racing started at 2 p.m. and finished at 4 p.m., six rates being got off in the two hours. There was no totalisator, no bookmakers, and so far as. could he seen, no betting was being done. “I enquired from an official,” said .Mr. Gee, “whether there was a chance* of ‘putting a bit on,’ but he informed me that if 1 wasn’t careful I would get run in.” The crowd appeared to take the racing very quietly, and there was none of the excitement usually met with on racecourses in the Dominion. “Sound, Health is priceless."—Dormer. You can keep free from colds and coughs the whole year . round if you take Baxter’s Lung Preserver. It is a pleasant - tasting remeUy, wonderfully penetrative, rich .and, soothing. Lasting relief follows (lie first doge. “Baxter’s" is. also celebrated as a tonic —rebuilds and fortifies weakened constitutions. .You can obtain a gener-ous-sized bottle' from your chemist or store for 2s 6d; or, better still, get the family size at 4s 6d.—7.