The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1911. THE RACING COMMISSIONERS A QUENCHED QUINTETTE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 July 1911, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1911. THE RACING COMMISSIONERS A QUENCHED QUINTETTE.

So far ias it has gone, the country racing clu'bs' fight for liberty has achieved good results. Their canse is a good oiive, and the best of final results should crown their present efforts. But t'ho great volume of protest that has arisen, (from Auckland to Otago), should not be misunderstoodL Jt seems to us that it is based upon n son.se of injustice done to the country chubs as a whole; and not, as the ActingPrenrioi , would have us believe, upon a .generally-held idea that the total amount of horseracing in New Zealand needs no eurtailmeii't. Parliament was in deep earnest, we think, when it set upon a Racing Commission to cut down the number of lacing days. But it erred in its method !of application. To send forth. :is it did, live unjudicial prvj sons upon a judicial errand was equivalent to '"'riding for a fall." And failure "has" come—with a rj-iiiii- | tessential flavour at that! The i - fluenitial metropolitan clubs ha , . ;< boom punned ever so delicately; else cong?S'tot!i racing district of Napier has been left with its two clul s crowding eacJh other for elbow room ; while here and thiere in the two big islands some fourteen innlortiinato and un'iiifluential country racing clubs have been "butchered to mako a city holiday" 'by five perl'ervid J failures of Racing Commissioners' . who will go down to pmsperity .merely as The Quenched Qnintetto whose lights were put out because they were mere .wills-o'-tbe-wNx instead of purifying flames. That' Parliament "will" take this cour e we 'have no doubt whatever; the Commissioners' injustices are too glaring to be connived at iby anv body 'of legislators.