WAIKATO HUNT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 228, 25 September 1940, Page 14

WAIKATO HUNT.

LABOUR DAY MEETING. MAT BE HELD AT TE RAP A. HAMILTON, this day. With the acquiescence of the military authorities the labour Day meeting of the Waikato Hunt will be staged at Te Rapa on October 28 and the spring meeting of the Waikato Racing Club will follow on November 16 and 18. With the encampment of the let Battalion, 16th Waikato Regiment, on the Cambridge course and the occupation of the buildings by the military authorities, the Waikato Hunt Club will not be able to utilise its course this season. This occupation of the course and buildings has entailed, among other things, the stripping of. the interior of the totalieator 'house, aad it ie impracticable to replace the dismantled sections to permit the totalieator operating for one day'e racing.

The Waikato Racing Club has offered the Hunt Club the use of Te Rapa free of charge, an offer that has been accepted. This arrangement is subject to the approval of the Auckland District Committee, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, and tfce military authorities. Following detailed negotiations the. Waikato Racing Club has been'given to understand that the Te Rapa coulee will be available for racing, but that certain sections will etill be utilised by the authorities. The members' car parking area, where the men's tents have been erected, will not be available to the public on race day. It ie the intention of the Waikato Hunt, if it races at Te Rapa, to devote all the net profits to patriotic" purposes.