What Might be Done.

Manawatu Herald, 29 January 1900, Page 2

What Might be Done.

The Foxton Racing Club takes great interest in their fine racecourse, and yearly make a large expenditure in beautifying and improving it. For years it has been admitted that each one brings the club nearer to the necessity of having a resident caretaker for their property, and when the planting was first laid out the site for a cottage was left open and is in a position that will be most convenient to the occupier and yet quiet out of sight of the racecourse proper. The Club will not have sufficient work to wholly take up the time of the caretaker, and as he will be selected from applicants who are steady, well-known, and something of gardeners, the suggestion we make will be worth considering. A large sum yearly is spent upon putting the course into first-class order for the meeting and the club expect the caretaker to keep this in view. There is an idea that the olub should purchase a lawn-mower of a small size which a pony could work, and the track kept in trim with this would soon become very much improved. The outlay on the machine will be however almost greater than the advantages derived from its use, if only the course is to have attention and we have thus looked about to see where a lawn-mower could not be further used. We find the Borough Council control two blocks where a mower could be used to very much advantage. Now if when the club gets a caretaker the Council could see its way to hand over the care of Cemetery and Victoria Park also to him and pay him . quite as much as is paid for the yearly rush to trim up each block, we believe a man would take the job and keep these blocks in very much better order. We just outline what is needed — the working together of the Club and Council — when a great advantage could be secured without a greater outlay.