At the Auckland Racing Club’s Great Northern meeting, which opened yesterday at Ellerslie, the gelckTe Homai, trained by Mr A. Cook, at Te Awamutu, won the Hunt Clu 1 ' Hurdles in good style. The winner of the Great Northern Hurdles was the Cambridge-trained Prince Lu, who was little fancied and beat his stableimate Luccess, the favourite, and a dozen others. Prince Lu competed ir ’ the two -steeplechase events at Te Awamutu a fortnight ago, running in one and falling in the other. No doubt training Prince Lu for steeplechasing improved his staying powers for prior to yesterday’s race he h*»'' invariably tired badly in two mile hurdle events.
About two years ago the _ Main Highways Board and the Railways Department entered into an arrangement under which each party agreed to contribute 50 per cent of the cost of improvements to view at railway level crossings and a number of crossings have been improved under this arrangement. In view, however, of the restricted revenue of the Railways Department that department has advised the board that it is unable to make any funds available for ibis purpose during the current financial year.
Woods’ Groat Peppermint Cure for children’s hacking- cough.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3305, 4 June 1931, Page 4
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