Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1920. RACING PERMITS AND INCREASED PRODUCTION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2190, 16 October 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1920. RACING PERMITS AND INCREASED PRODUCTION.

WHAT in the name of commonsense is possessing the Government fo waste lime over the subject of an increase in the number of racing permits to the exclusion of other matters of vital importance to the welfare of the Dominion.’ If (be time spent on Mr Hunter's Bill were given, for instanee, to a searching inquiry into the machinations of greedy land speculators and some measure devised fo make them disgorge 1 (heir ill-got tea gains, h would be more to the point. The Premier and 'Ministers have been urging “more production" and preaching economy to the masses, and yet permit a discussion on a measure which has for its object the very opposite of increased product ion. There are quite sufficient racing days in this country if the distribution were equalised. Even so. tin* racing facilities now a Horded, while adding fo (be revenue, per medium of the tola lisa lor tax, restrict production to a far greater extent, and divert thousands of pounds annually to wrong channels. Wo do not desire (o he included in the ranks of the kill-joys, hut (he country needs arousing to I lie fact that a lime ol depression looms in the distance and now is the time to concent rale on more essential things than the increase of racing permits.