OUR LETTER BOX.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 5, 7 January 1904, Page 2

OUR LETTER BOX.

(VVc are at all times willing to publish correspondence on mattera ol public interest, but it must be distinctly understood that we are not identified with the letters of our correspondents.—Ed. Daily News.) RACING SCANDALS. source pf danger, it \w' - Col »inff e passed th<3 pos-jitHy ■ , "•' «S° has now one of the fcwJ* a '"i is Zealand has, a - « lll ' s oa New And, again. "' >ihlKi»s,i.b> "« s! >y s . "It is found sultl-' - to secure for stewards a ..ent number of men not pecuniarily concerned." What a "g'ivo- ■ away." Mr Samuel is indeed the culiiidkl friend, and, Ifcing buliiml the scenes he of course knows, Mr Samuel says "racing increases the prosperity o* the district." Does it? Will Mr Samuel tell us how, and 'Uieit perhaps I will tell him 'by far tihe most effectual advertisement." Docs he i-cully think so V Then what sort of advertisement has New i'lyniioiit-h had lo t'he rest of the colony by the scandals perpetrated on the local course '.' Why, the tbmad contest we had hero was the IbiggeM mlvertisemeii't we ever had, and Unit of an honest and clean character—one we could look back o« with pleasure, not distrust. Save us, 1 say, from the 'Udvertisemunt of a place by the mveraige race meeting. yet rejeckd)." I'ertiap.s not, but then it lis just possible thai New Plymouth racing might 'be cleuuier U S'ome had been rejected, so that no one having lx-ea rejected from local racing circles might only prove that those who want honest ruci'iig have not hitherto done their duty. And then, after puintimg the wihole 'business ns black as he can (I really tlaink whvn he Marted to paint lie thought he was using a whitewash ilMlush), he appeals to those who desire to main'lnm racing to come on imti help. Then all 1 can say is if it is from the ramks of those who desire to mainlaiin racing lie exjiecis help to clean up bad rccouLs lai» case •is hopeless, and those who do not desire to maintain rnci'iig are not likely to help maiiniain what they do not believe in ; so where is help to come from ? -My opinicia is that it Is time the community as n wlu.de (the majority of New I'lymoiil.liites never go in-ar a racecourse) set to work and devised some forms of amusement for our holidays that we can all go to with pleasure; and not feel that we are being demoralized every timo wo attend or take part in them.-I am •etc. ONE QF THE PUBLIC,