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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 205, 28 June 1894, Page 4

It is only natural to find the added money question first on Mr Alison’s list. The country clubs have found the existing rule a decidedly oppressive one in the past, and we fail to see what ground for complaint can be found in the proposed alterations. Since the day the added money provisions were altered in favour of a higher money scale the country clubs have been going down hill financially until now it is the exception to find one on the sound side of the ledger. They cannot afford to give the money which is at presens necessary under the Rules, and if the existing provisions are maintained they must sink out of existence. There should be no desire on the part of the Metropolitan Clubs to wipe out the suburban and country organisations, for they undoubtedly act as feeders for the city clubs. Through their races, owners are enabled to keep their stock going and to be in a position to figure occasionally as owners at metropolitan gatherings, which figuring means, of course, a source of revenue to the Metropolitan Clubs. Nor should there be much opposition shown to the proposal to alter the minimum in flat races held between May 31st and September Ist from 10.0 to 9.0. With;

the former limit racers contesting at our Winter Meeting and the Havre’s Bay and Gisborne Meetings are called upon to carry very excessive burdens. Were a lower scale possible, large fields could be brought together without calling upon those at the top of the weight list to carry such crushing burdens as thirteen and fourteen stone.