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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1271, 9 February 1883, Page 2

We have a bone to pick with the Poverty Bay Turf Club, and may as well do it at once. There was a committee meeting held yesterday afternoon at the Masonic Hotel, and a representative of the Standard was in attendance, but was informed that reporters were excluded. Certainly this was done in a most polite and gentlemanly manner, so we have no cause of complaint on that score, but we have on another. One of those present happens to be a member of the com. mittee, and one of the proprietors of our contemporary acts as reporter for his own paper. If it is desired that reports of committee meetings are not to be published, we are of opinion that the club should see that they are not, and should request the gentleman alluded to to refrain from acting in the dual capacity of committeeman and reporter. Had this occurred for the first time yesterday we would have passed it over, but it is not so. On other occasions the same advantage has been taken, and we think the Club should see that it is not repeated. Either admit the reporters of both papers, or take steps that a reporter of one of them does not attend these meetings disguised as a member of the committee.