A USEFUL INVENTION.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 693, 18 June 1903, Page 7

A USEFUL INVENTION.

Jt has always been a matter of surprise that with so many inventions constantly being registered, the great majority of which are of no earthly use to mankind, no one has devised a plan whereby horses could be shod with nailless shoes. However, there is much truth in that hoary adage that everything comes to the man who waits, and at last it would appear that a method has been found. Mr W. Brady, of Te Puke, has taken out a patent for an improved horse Shoe, which, if what its inventor claims for it is true, will quite revolutionise the methods at present adopted by smiths. Like many other patents from which immense fortunes have been derived, the idea is simplicity itself, and one is inclined to marvel why it was 1 not tried before. The shoe isi of specially manufactured steel, and is simply fitted over the hoof and tne back open portion of the shoe tightened and the thing is done. Mr Brady has shown his invention to several of our foremost horseowners, who have one and all expressed themsellves in terms of warm approval. Mr Donnelly, the well-known Hawke's Bay sportsman, was much impressed with the merits of the new shoe. There is no doubt whatever that if the horses themselves could be consulted in the matter their vote would be solid in favour of the nailless shoe, which, indeed, such an improvement on the pre .ent method that it seems quite probable it may ultimately be universally adopted.