THE RACING PERMITS.
LETTER PROM C.J.C. CHAIRMAN. .ffiy Telecraph.—Pro3s Association.! Christchurch, July 26. Tho chairman o£ the Canterbury Jockey Club has addressed α-lengthy letter to tho Minister for Internal Affairs pn tho subject of allotting two days' racing toßangitikei Racing Club by reducing by one day the number of days' racing allotted to tho C.J.C. Tho chairman contends that the C.J.C.- caters for the wholo Of the Dominion in a special manner. The attendance at its meetings is drawn from a wider circle than elsewhere. Ho also directs attention to the comparative lack of racr ing facilities in tho South Island, compared with the North, aa only tho Canterbury Jockey Club and the Dunedin Jockey Club provide racing of weight-for-age standard, and these two between them had twenty days' racing, now reduced to nineteen. In tho north there is'an aggregate of 36 days' racing. Ho quotes tho following figures relative, to the number of days on which strictly metropolitan clubs raced:—Christchnrch, 12; Auckland, 19j Hawke's Bay, 11; Palinerston, 9; Wellington, 9. ■
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1503, 27 July 1912, Page 13
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171THE RACING PERMITS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1503, 27 July 1912, Page 13
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