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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 202, 7 June 1894, Page 5

A considerable amount of discussion has arisen over the weighing out of jockeys since the Waiuku case at Hawera, and the general opinion is that every club should have printed slips on which the jockey’s actual weight when weighted out could be written, and then signed by the clerk of the scales. This ticket would then be presented by the jockey when he: came to weigh in after the race. This system would involve no extra trouble to the clerk of the scales, and moreover it would give satisfaction to all concerned in the weighing out and in of a horse —the owners, trainers, jockeys, public, and clerk of the scales himself. The defects of the rules are always brought to light by accident, and the Waiuku case would certainly indicate that the rules regulating the weighing out and in of jockeys are not framed in such a manner as to prove satisfactory to persons interested when a mistake arises. A receipt from the clerk of scales appears the simplest and best way of giving satisfaction to all parties.