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Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1930, Page 6

The judgment debtor had once been a horse-trainer but was now selling house linaments and treating horses for lameness. He was last before the court in 1925 in connection with his debt. When he appeared again before the Magistrate, yesterday it was announced that none of the £l3 owing had been paid, lie said he could not make an offer at present. ‘‘The more I hear of this case,” observed Mr. R. W. Tate, “the more clearly do I recall that this man's existence depended on whether slow horses won races.” Counsel agreed. “Yes, sir,” he said. “They are all too slow on occasions.” But a waiting solicitoi had a better way of putting it. “You mean,” he interposed, “that the others are t<» fast.”