Correspondence

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 19, 13 August 1891, Page 2

Correspondence

A STUPID BLUNDER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sic, — I regret to learn from your columns that the delegates of the Feilding Jockey Club, who waited upon the Metropolitan Club Committee, in Wanganui, to endeavor to prevent the passing of the programme of the Palmerston Racing Club for their races to be held on the same day as the Feilding races, have returned with a most unsatisfactory report, to the effect that after the delegates had exhausted all their arguments in favour of the Feilding Club having a prior right to that day, they were calmly informed by the Metropolitan Committee that they cannot help themselves, and must pass the programme of the Palmerston Club for that day as well as that of Feilding. Now, sir, I would ask : What on earth is the use of a Metropolitan Club without a backbone, and so weak-kneed as not to have the courage to say " no " when necessary. Surely the duty of a Metro* politan Club is to govern and arrange any difficulties that may arise between the i lesser clubs under its jurisdiction, but here we haye a so-called Metropolitan Club that has not the courage of its opinions, and actually by its weakness sets two of its junior clubs by the ears, and says in so many words : " Fight it out — the fittest must survice." What possible argument can be adyanced for such an extraordinary decision it would puzzle any any sensible man to ascertain. The Metropolitan Club know, or ought to, that the Feilding Jockey Club has spent a very large sum of money on their course during the last two years, and therefore they should have been decided in their answer to Palmerston, and refused to pass their programme for the same day. It will now probably cause ill-feeling to arise between the two clubs in this district, and certainly loss to both. Do you think, sir, the Metropolitan Club would have passed a programme of either the Palmerston or Feilding Clubs to be run off on one of the days upon which the Metropolitan Club hold their races ? Weak-kneed as it is, I trow not — ergo, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. I feel sure all right-thinking people will consider that the Metropolitan Club has done the Feilding Jockey Club a great injustice, which deserves reparation at the earliest possible opportunity. — I am, &c, Justice.