DELETING DEAD-HEADS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 145, 23 June 1930, Page 6

DELETING DEAD-HEADS

ASHHURST CLUB SHOWS THE WAY ' ' ■''

(By Telegraph.) : (Special to "The Evening Post.") PALMERSTON N., This, Day. •The •Ashhitrst Racing Club, a' small country affair, is apparently the first to come out in the open.iv regard .to. the] •growing abiise of the complimentary' ticket system. With a view to Stu'dyinjr-the interests of the club's"' pattfffcs ' while1 also

safeguarding the interests of the club itself, the committee of the Ashhurst Club proposes introducing some innovations at next year's meeting, one being the deletion of all complimentary tickets. ■llu> claims by so many intending patrons for admission tickets, together with all rights for the uso of the stewards' stand, etc.. have been the means of curtailing the gate returns of so niany racing clubs, although something in the nature of an offset lias probably been forthcoming in the shape of totahsator returns. However; all too many individuals consider: they are entitled to free admission, but on what grounds it would be difficult rightly to determine should the question be dissected. The practice is rife among the smaller clubs of the North Island at least, and the Ashhurst Club has decided to take steps to'prevent the continuance of the system ho far as they are personally concerned. The/;introduction of v .flat rate of admission .iit ;alsb to be considered by the club; it being intended to do away with any distinction ' between "iiißide" and "outside" patrons by extending the lawn right past the totalisator into what has been previously considered the ground of the smaller bettor. The 'president, Mr. R. Mac Donald, whose aim it is to make the fixture something in the nature of a holiday picnic,is very enthusiastic in connection with the matter, maintaining that a flat rate of os per male patron and 2s for Itfdy patrong would be distinctly preferable to the': existing,system where his club is concerned..' - . ■ • ■• •:•■■