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A RACING PERMIT

CHANGE OF A DAY TO ANOTHER COtIESE. A proposal regarding the issue of a totalise tor permit was made to the ulinister of Internal Affairs in the House- of Representatives yesterday. Mr G. J. Anderson asked the Minister whether ho would grant a permit to the Wyndham Racing Club to race on NewYear's Day on the Invercargill Clubs course? He -understood that recently tho Minister granted a permit to the Kurow Club to raco on the Oainaru course. This being 60, he would like to see the β-ame privilege extended to the Wyndham Club, because under tho uew railway time-table it was impossible for the horses to get to Wyndham, and then to go to Invercargill to race the next day. . The Wyadham meeting, he said, was really a farmers' picnic. The Hon. G. W. Russell said that the totalizator permit to tho Wyndhara Rac : ing Club to race on the Invercarmll eourso could not be granted. Thia would give Invercargill an extra day, and would take away the whole effect of tho curtailment of racing on that course. He was glad to- have an opportunity of referring to the Kurow case. Every application that had been made for a.eluh to race off its own course had been refused, and it was with the utmost surprise that he learned a week or two ago that a permit had been "iven by the Department to tho Kurow Club to race on the Oaniaru' course. The Kurow Club applied for its permit in the ordinary , way, without drawing attention to the fact that it was for racin» at Oamaru. A few daye before the races were to take place the secretary wrote a letter to the Department drawing attention to the fact that the lacing was to be at Oamaru. The matter then came before him. He at once obj/ected to the whole affair, because he considered that the permit had been Gbtained by unfair means. Ho found out, however, that there were only five days be-, fore the meeting, and as the horsc-own-ers had probably made their arrangements he allowed it to pass. But lie was not going to allow a piece of sharp practice on the part of the Kurow Club to form a precedent for future concessions. ,

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 20, 18 October 1917, Page 4

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A RACING PERMIT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 20, 18 October 1917, Page 4

A RACING PERMIT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 20, 18 October 1917, Page 4

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