RANGITIKEI RACING CLUB.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2317, 18 August 1921, Page 1

RANGITIKEI RACING CLUB.

A FURTHER. PROTEST,

The Rangitikei Racing Club has for the past, sixty-five years upheld the best traditions of sport in the Rangitikei district, and has supplied clean, first-class racing for many thousands of country folk in Bulls, Sanson, and the surrounding districts. As showing the popularity of the Club’s gatherings, it may be mentioned that at the last Annual Meeting about 4,500 persons paid for admission. The central position of the Club’s line course enables the Rangitikei Racing Club to cater for thousands of farming people who would never otherwise en-

joy even an annual day’s sport, and it is not surprising therefore that intense indignation has been stirred up in Rangitikei by the recommendation of the Racing Commission that this and other country clulis should be deprived of their annual meetings in order to grant additional permits to larger clubs which are already surfeited with racing. The Press of the Dominion has lent a sympathetic ear to the just protest of the little country (dubs, and it is quite certain that when Parliament meets the farcical (ladings of the Racing Commission will lie promptly vetoed. Nevertheless, the Rangitikei Racing Club has been actively engaged marshalling its forces, and .at the forthcoming meeting of the Club's members a monster petition will be prepared for presentation to Parliament. The Club's supporters have included horse-breeders, horse-own-ers, hunting and polo enthusiasts in the Rangitikei district, and the facilities of racing at home, and the splendid training tracks provided by the Rangitikei Racing Club have been a big factor in promoting the sport in the district. During the past twenty-four years the Rangitikei Racing Club has contributed £18,815 to the X.%. Government in Totalisator Tax alone, of. which £12,473 has been paid in the last >ix years, showing the progress the Club has made in the recent vears.