ANOTHER WESTPORT GRIEVANCE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 110, 3 February 1920, Page 8

ANOTHER WESTPORT GRIEVANCE

TROUBLE ABOUT RACING PERMIT tly Tclcgritr 1 ' Apsociation. » Westport, .February 2. : Westport alleges another grievous Injustice. The'Jockcy Club applied at th» last. Kacing Conference for the. Kanunen permit, which lfns originally taken from Westport by tho 1910 legislation, and! ■which Karamca, owing to tho sovorn drain, off the community by the war, .T*ree<l would bo handed back to Westport. The iiacing Conference approved of the application, 'subject to tho ex* Twndituro on buildinE.*? ot not 'ess tluip -£•2000, the club having purchased and formed a new racecourse since 1015. <m j the strength of this approval, the •clnb ontered into commitments for »o. , After the club's programme for two days . racing had been approved by both tlie district committee and the Trotting Association, the club was notified that no yeni. t for a second day was availably its second day permit having apparently been given to tlie'.Tcllicoe trotting! meeting held at Christchurch" on September ( B 11)19. It appears that the I?acing Conference had been notified by the Depart, nient in November of this alteration, but the clubs interested had received no advice to that, effect, and as the ofli- .• ciab calendar still showed two days rac- | Hio rlub wont on with its rociiiK j and building programme. r The srcre'arv (Mr. Patterson says tl'nt if the "ranting of racing permits to ' 11:.i» "11lis 5 c "t'o hMd _ by the Minis- . ler then the whole fabric, of racing "<!• ministration will be decoyed.. Tb" community is loud in protest ngnmst Hk | altitude. "Tt nripnars. rh.vp Mr.' Patterson, "ns if iclvnnhw wn« ( taken of tb» death of Mr. Colvin fmember for Duller) In deprive his constituency of its just dues."