RIOT OF GAMBLING.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1916, Page 5

RIOT OF GAMBLING.

THE HOLIDAY RECORD. OVER £850,000 " INVESTED" OS HORSE RACES. i, ; We have compiled a list, which is npf purport oil to l)o complete, two or threO' meetings bring omitted from'it, to show tin- extent to which a station of tho public of New X.ra'and lias indulgvH in a riot of <.-iunblinir iluruifv the holidays (:-.Kys flic i lingo Daily Times). The lint comprise- nn inert inns that wow W& before Ui-i r!nl)rr s;, ,-u Unit-it repreaents the results of a work » racing In tile JJ<»v minion. It show- Ilia! the mnounts in> vested nt twenty-three meetings during the brief period totulliM .CS3l,?ljti 10s, ns follows.- '£ : Auckland Raring 01111 > ....... 23rt,181 % Httliawatit Jockey Club !»l. a M Auckland Trotting Club .... fl.v.iM , Stratford Racing Club ~ .IS,BBV ■ Wairarupa Racing Club M.MS. Canterbury Park Trotting Club !7.M8 Marton Jockey Club 41,053 Taranaki Jockey Club 3(1 .K49V( Duncdin ,Jockey Club 30,073 llawke's Ray Jockey Club ... 34,MP Southland Raring Club ...... 25,(00 North Otago Jockey Club .... 24,420 1 Thames Jockey Club 10,071 Grey mouth Trotting Club .... 10,300 ! Ashburton Trotting Club ~.. 14.153V5 Westport" Trotting Club ..... 11.500 « Goro Trotting Club 10,807 Grcymouth .Toekev Club 0,(125 Rcct'ton Jockey Club 9,201 Wyndhani Racing Club (1,1 W W.tikniuiti Racing C'hib 9,005 Taratahi-Cnrterton R.C S,fl?S Porangalmu Jockey Chib .... 3,021 A conservative estimate of tbCi ''ifl l vestments'' at the meetings which l$V( not been included in thn abo'vo tftlh will bring the total to .€830,000 or m The figures are illustrative, of jfourssriot the prosperity that is being eiijoyed'iby the Dominion—a prosperity for whlc we are indebted to the might of -til British Navy. But tho moralist, fin not only the moialist, may find in tlilitf an evidence of extravagance find wsstS fulness at a time when economy if 4H policy that should be observed by id prudent people. Tlie figures ftuwtati moreover, a fresh indication of tlifc c» iatence of a large taxable margin i the country. "■ V>s