DIVIDED PERMITS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 140, 14 May 1940, Page 4

DIVIDED PERMITS.

"PRACTICE CRITICISED. • Criticism of the practice of certain North Island clubs, as well as some in the South Island, in securing permits to hold race mootings on four separate Saturdays during the. season was voiced at the annual meeting of the Marton Jockey Club by Mr J. R. L. Stanford, one of the vicepresidents of the club and also a member of the executive committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference. “I can see no objection,” said Mr Stanford, “to a club entitled lo_two days’ rac ing desiring that the two days be widely separated, because I think that the needs of the district might be best supplied by having the two days reasonably far apart: However, I cannot, see .-any justification for permitting a small club to have four, or oven six, separate race meetings of one day each, to the detriment of other clubs. ]

If a club has no holiday date on which to lace it 'invariably applies to the executive committee to be allowed t° race on a, Saturday, which is now practically a universal holiday, and there are not sufficient Saturdays to go round . “The question of dates invariably leads to heart-burnings, as July approaches,” concluded Mr Stanford. “With the splitting of permits it is becoming more arid more difficult, and an appeal to the Racing Conference at this stage is certainly justifiable.”