RACING NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1921, Page 1

RACING NEWS.

i 11 1 UUliaiAl'll- . rill PRESS association] END LI SI I RACING. LONDON. Oil. The Cambridgeshire stakes resulted: Milettko 1. Heighten 2. Kraiiklin .’i. LONDON, Oct. 20. Twenty-four started in the Cambridgeshire Stakes, which was won by a short head. \ .R.C. I! AC INC. MELBOURNE, Oct. 27. A new tax on betting tickets updates on Saturday. It inci eases the tax on grandstand and enclosure tickets to

sixpence, ami on hill tickets to tlueepeiiee. These taxes were formerly .’hi

and a penny. Tho Melbourne Derby acceptors are: | Harvest King, Selton, Thttmlerei. Lie- ; Hi I At I W ill, Iho I. ( olnliel’s Aide. IVlan Main, Honeybee, Da. Bassi. Eli l ions. B \C| N(.’ COMMISSION'S It El’t HIT. TVELLTNt.TON, Oct. 20. Meiiiheri of Parliament met again today to consider problems of the Macing Commission’s report. Sir (‘1 purge Hunter, in an oflicial statement, said that the meeting to consider the report of the commission was attended hy over fifty members of parliament. A resolution was carried bv u good majority asking the Minister to give the House all opportunity of earl;.' consideration oi ilio (tixler-ii-Coum il and report of the eoiiiiiussioii. The following were appointed as a deputation to wait on the Prime Minister: Messrs Isitt. Ditty, Mitchell. Savage. Brown. d. S. Dickson. Eield. Williams IL Thacker and Sir George Hunter. The deput-afion wailed km the Prime Minister who gave it. a very patient hearing and promised it that he would confer with his colleagues. He would let the deputation know ill linitcly hy Friday when an opportunity would he given. Tt would mil, in any case he before next Wednesday. Another poinl raised hy the deputation, said the Prime Minister, would he referred to the Crown Law olliccrs.