King Country Chronicle Saturday, June 24, 1911. TE KUITI RACING CLUB.
It will be gratifying news to many of our readers to hear that the Te Kuiti Racing Club has been granted a totalisator permit for one day's racing every year. We consider that the Club has particular cause for congratulation owing to the fact that, while in many instances existing totalisator permits have been curtailed, only two new permits have been granted in the whole of New Zealand, one to Te Kuiti ani the other to the Bay of Plenty. The Club was founded about three years ago by a number of enthusiasts who at considerable trouble and expense secured the present course, which was then a Kahikatea swamp. To bring the course to its present condition has cost between six and seven hundred pounds, and it is clear from the wording of the Commission's report that one uf the principal factors which led to the grant of a permit to Te Kuiti was the enthusiasm which has been shown by members of the Club in the face of such serious- and often disheartening difficulties. The fortunes of the Club should now be beyond 4 doubt, but as it is in the position of commencing its career with heavy liabilities to work off, it will need the whole-hearted assistance of all who are interested in the sport during the next few years. The recommendations of the Commission with regard to Te Kuiti are as follows:—"We recommend obtaining freehold of course or permanent right to race at fixed rental, and also railing the inside of the racing track, erection of suitable stand and other necessary appointments, sanitary and otherwise." We of course recognise that all these matters of vital impurtance to the Club and will have to be carried out within the next few years if the Club is to maintain its status. Judging by past results, we have no hesitation in prophesying that in a very few years time Te Kuiti will be able to provide one of the best and most interesting country meetings in New Zealand. The Club has now passed successfully through the greatest crisis in its history, and we trust that all residents of the district who are anxious to see tne sport prosper will bow their recognition of the fine work tbat has been done by the officials and members of the Club in the past, by rallying round them and giving them their hearty support at the very outset of this new epoch in its history.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 372, 24 June 1911, Page 4
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423King Country Chronicle Saturday, June 24, 1911. TE KUITI RACING CLUB. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 372, 24 June 1911, Page 4
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