A Mendacious Correspondent
♦ ; A Wanganui correspondent of the N.Z. Times says : •• The Jockey Olub here are anxious that further powers should be given to metropolitan clubs, with a view to putting a stop to the great number of small " totalisator" meetings now held, which detract considerably from the legitimate sport. Only a few days ago a hack race meeting was held in this district, at which the great proportion of those present were navvies, and the whole affair was one that might very well be dispensed with in the interests of sport. Good meetings like these here, at Palm- ■ erston North, or Hawera, are greatly . prejudited when places like Feilding, ; Foxton, and Waverley bold two meetings a year, where one would be ample." The author of this mendacious paragraph does not appear to know what he is writing about. He insults the navvies, who are a hard working lot of good men, and makes a deliberate misstatement about the Feilding Races, of which there is only one meeting per year,
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 99, 22 March 1888, Page 2
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