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, «. HEAVY COLONIAL RACING TAX New Zealand Turf Being Hampered and Tracks Neglected by the Drain. Racing is taxed most heavily in New Zealand. The repeat of the inspector of the totalizator for the past year shows that the provinces racing clubs paid .s_. !-." . N..O. aud the trotting clubs 2127,285, a total | of 21.152,275, against 22.511,123 last year, and .9!. .3."0 in 19J0. Racing prizes have also gone up in value. The thoroughbred average purse was 21.M5, and that for trotters ,343. There is a good deal of harness racing of class in New Zealand. From the thoroughbred purses and stakes the gov- ; eminent took 1 per cent. -*3»."i33. The totalizatoi taxation amounted to .408.L01. on top of which, to | make up the total of S3.iri3.37.".. was a :. ., |,er cent tax on gross gate and privilege receipts, a land ! tax and an income tax. There are many race tracks in the colony. Only some five or six are well kept and taxation is one of the causes for the lack of first-class racing es- tablishments.
