RIVERTON RACING CLUB.

Southland Times, Issue 21652, 14 March 1932, Page 7

RIVERTON RACING CLUB.

To the Editor. Sir, —I have been waiting for some Rivertonian to write to your columns backing up “Citizen” against the Racing Club. Perhaps others have been similarly waiting. Sir, I think the Racing Club in building loose-boxes in Havelock street have shown themselves absolutely callous to the interests of any one but those of themselves. It is appalling and amazing that any body of men could decide such a step, knowing as they should, that rats, flies and fleas, the inevitable accompanying pests of stables, are the known carriers of all manner of disease germs. There is an effusion in this morning’s (Friday’s) Times presumably by a member of the Racing Club over the nom-de-plume "Spokeshave.” Nqw, Sir, I am a friend of “Citizen’s,” and those who know him are well aware that he is not hiding behind a pen-name. Ho speaks openly of the action of the Racing Club and fights for the public weal publicly. As for his private grievance I understand ho is attending to that in a private manner, as is fitting. In conclusion, Sir, ,1 think the Racing Club deserves unmitigated condemnation for building these loose-boxes in Havelock street. Should the Health Department pass them, then it is high time we had a new Health Department; one with a .knowledge of the danger to health that rats, flies and fleas constitute.—l am, etc., JUST SO.