WESTPORT CLUB’S GRIEVANCE
Strong exception was taken by the Westport Trotting Club to the action of the New Zealand Trotting Association in granting a permit to the Greymouth Jockey Club to include two trotting events on each day at its coming three days’, meeting, as this will permit of only one day for travelling between Westport’s second day and Greymouth’s opening day, entailing thirty miles of road and sixty-six miles of railway journey. Moreover, the, Grevmouth Jockey Club has made the acceptance fee SI, as compared with the Westport Trotting Club’s £2 2s. It was held that the action of the New Zealand Trotting Association had been detrimental to the acceptances of the Westport Trotting Club, which is one of the oldest: established clubs in the dominion. A protest to the parent body has been lodged
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Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 17
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136WESTPORT CLUB’S GRIEVANCE Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 17
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