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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1921, Page 2

( * nukh tlu* radical readjustment of : the totalisatnr permits {imposed by tbe Racing Commission, Kumara Pacing Club is declared to be unnecessary, as the district is well served by Grevniouth and Hokitika Clubs. The permit goes to the Nelson Club, which will now have three days Regarding necessary improvements to arcecourses, the report states th Reefton course requires its circumference lengthened and the coins widened, as soon as funds permit. There is no other comment on other Coast Clubs. A new totalisatur Club is recommended at .Motueka. In Grevniouth racing district, the report states in Westland, wherein sawmilling and coal mining are staple industries, tho consensus of opinion among the employees is that there is a sufficiency of racing and of the utmost importance to the well-being of the business of the district and the commission was besouglkt, with convincing sincerity, to do nothing whereby the opportunities for its enjoyment should be diminished. The report is of a comprehensive nature and deals exhaustively with the position of several clubs. Notable clubs to be wiped out include Avondale, Gisborne, Napier Park, Waipawa, Ashburst, Pangitikei, Otago Central Racing Clubs, Otahuhu, Wairarapa, Canterbury Park Trotting Clubs. Fortyone permit days in all are suggested for cancellation. Auckland City loses six. Wellington gains for trotting. Christchurch loses four, Dunedin is unchanged Several new racing and trotting Clubs are recommended. The general recommendations include the appointment of an officer by the Government to report regularly

on the condition of courses and appointments, and also the desirability of enforcing a 10s totalisator on all courses, Clubs to work their own totalisators. There is a, compulsory provision for a training track. Only in exceptional circumstances should a. Club he allowed to race on any course other than its own. Rangiora Club is recommended for an extra day. The report takes effect when approved by Parliament, but' meantime Clulis affected by the report may not hold meetings. So many Clubs and districts are affected throughout the Dominion that there is certain to be strenuous opposition to tinadoption of the report by Parliament. Totalisator permits are increased from racing 214, trotting 59, hunt 8, to racing 223. trotting 78, hunt 15. This controversy between the Acting'.

Prime Minister and the Consul-General for the United States in New Zealand over the Government’s restriction of the trading oerations of the Armour Meat Company in the Dominion, has resulted in the accumulation of a very bulky pile of letters and telegrams, which it has. been mutually agreed shall be üblished. Accordingly, Sir Francis Bell will have prepared a Par. I liamentary paper containing complete details. This controversy, which has raised such an interesting diplomatic questions reached a further stage with a letter from the Consul-General for the United States, who deals with Sir Francis Bell’s point that New Zealand (views of the operations of the Big Five had been gained from official documents of the United States Government, including the report of the Federal Trade Commission. To lit: the American Consul-General retorts that- the Federal Trade Commission’s report cannot have any bearing on the domestic regulation of the operations of Armour and Co. in Australia and New Zealand. This repudiation of an official report, which has been so extensively circulated throughout the world as an exposure of the methods of flie big meat - packers, is a highly interesting development and is indicative of the great [xilitical changes . which have taken place in the United States since its preparation.