RACING AND THE REST
Sir,-Your correspondents who ‘complain that the commentary on the races at Riccarton was interrupted by the War News have no doubt reason to be annoyed. But there is another point of view. To many New Zealanders old and young, the war is the most important thing that has happened in their lives, even apart from the fact that they may have sons and brothers fighting in it. Some even go so far as to consider that this war is the most tre‘mendous event in scope and importance that has happened since the beginning of civilisation. Some, too, are shamed and humiliated that racing goes on so much as usual. They do not understand why so many hundred men are absorbed in. the business of carrying on racing while in every form of primary and secondary industry, transport and everything else, there is such a desperate shortage of labour: why so many thousands of gallons of petrol and so much rubber in tyres is wasted every week in moving horses and going to race meetings: why when ordinary railway travel is restricted, there should be 16 special trains run from Wellington for one morning’s racing. But these people are too solemn and serious about it all. Of course the first race at Riccarton is
vastly more important.-
K. E.
CROMP
TON
M.B. (Havelock North),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 241, 4 February 1944, Page 3
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