REDUCTION OF RACING.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1917, Page 4

REDUCTION OF RACING.

y A meeting is to be held at Greymouth to-night to act upon the following telegram sent to the Greymouth Metropolitan Club by the President of the N.Z. Racing Conference .

"Please appoint without deTaWrve members of your Committee to sit with the live district delegates to your District Committee as a 1 listrict Committee for arranging a reduction of one-third of the days of racing within

your district.” The agreement between Government and the Racing authorities with regard to the reduction of racing is as follows : (1) The reduction to lie one-third of the days of racing within the Dominion for the period of the wat. (2) This reduction to be applied pro rata within each Aterropolitan District. (3) The District Committees to decide which days of racing within their respective District shall bo discontinued. -r / (4) The District Committee for this purpose to consist of the DisTricfc j delegates and of five members of the . Metropolitan Club’s Committee under the presidency of the Chairman of the District Committee. (5j Sufficient money shall In pro- j vid,-d by Racing Clubs in each district out of profits from meetings h Id for fhe purposes herein set out : - (a) For the maintenance of the racecourses within the District, where required. (b) For payment' of interest on mortgages, bavdc ovcrdrult.-., etc. (c) For pmuunteeing or advancing to any Racing Club thus temporarily discontinued, the amount of slakes not exceeding its usual ecalo f g its first year’s racing after such advances to be refunded as far as its limit eial success may permit. Five days out of 15, are to be cut out of the West Coast racing, tint is

from" Nelson to Westland. M hoio a committee fails to agree the matter in dispute may be inferred to the Hon Minister of Internal Affairs for his opinion, or to the President of the Ricing C inference who may either decide r the question or appoint three judges (as in a racing appeal) and the decision of such is to be final. All schetnes go to Canterbury for final approval. All decisions of District .Committo’s under the above agreement, are to reach the Secretary of the Racing Conference before June 20th to anticipate the meeting of Parliament.