A COVETED DAY.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1926, Page 1

A COVETED DAY.

racing club and hunt club. AVELLINGTON, June 30. Li the House this afternoon the negotiations of the Waikato Racing dull to secure the regular racing day of the AVaikato Hunt Club (Labour Day) were described by Mr A. AI. Samuel (Ohinemuri) as a most unsportsmanlike action, particularly coming from a Racing Club. * I lie AA aikido Hunt Club, lie said, had enjoyed this day for over twenty years, and an attempt was now to !•? made to use the Racing Conference for the purpose of depriving them of this day. He trusted that the members of the Con-fe,-onaa would he too high minded to lie influenced by any such attempt. However, some members of tlie Waikato Racing Club were also members of the -executive of the Hunt Club, and during a recent meeting of the Hunt Club two of these members had stated that the Government was going to cut out racing dates allotted to Hunt Clubs. They had ii.sad this as an f’-gument to get the Hunt Club to sell its date for a certain amount of money per annum. He believed, and said so at the meeting, that nothing of the sort could -L? done without tha country first being consulted, and the matter at least having been brougat bofoiv the House. This was later continued by the Minister for Internal Affairs, who stated that the AA r aikato Hunt, having used the certain date for twenty years, could continue to do so as long as it wished. He promised to see that it was not interfered with. Tlie AVaikatn Racing Club bad govv further, and had applied two years in succession for Labour Day—an attempt to use the’Racing Conference to filch from the weaker 'body its only racing day. It was the intention of the president of tlie AVaikato Racing Club to move at the Racing Conference to have all Hunt Afeetings hold within a certain period of the year, all for the one end. If carried through, this would cause a great deal of convent in the sporting world, particularly in racing circles, and might lead to a revolution. In fact, none could say where it would stop. AVaikato had recoined two extra days, and was now a four-day Meeting, and Mr Samuel hoped it- would not succeed in usurping the Hunt Club’s day.