CURTAIN DOWN ON RACING DISPUTE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 140, 3 September 1927, Page 9

CURTAIN DOWN ON RACING DISPUTE

WAIKATO SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT FOR FUTURE (THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The amicable settlement of the Waikato Racing dispute is officially announced in a statement issued by the Department of Internal Affairs. The Waikato Racing Club is to be allotted a. totalisator licence for meetings to be held on Friday, October 21, and Saturday, October 22, and the Waikato Hunt Club is to have the Labour Day date. A definite understanding has been arrived at between the Minister of Internal Affairs and representatives of the New Zealand Racing Conference. The terms of the agreement are as follow's: — “I (a) All applications for totalisator licences by any racing, jockey or hunt club in any year shall be made to the Minister of Internal Affairs, as provided by statute; (b) all applications for totalisator licences shall be considered by the New Zealand Racing Conference, which shall forward its recommendations thereon to the Minister of Internal Affairs; (c) in the event of the Minister of Internal Affairs not agreeing to any particular licence as recommended by the New Zealand Racing Conference, the president or the dates committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference shall appoint two representatives of the dates committee to confer with the Minister of Internal Affairs thereon; (d) in the event of no agreement being arrived at in any particular case by the Minister and such representatives of the conference the Minister shall then finally determine the matter. “2. As has already been stated the allotment of dates for race meetings is a mater for the New Zealand Racing Conference, which at all times will give the fullest consideration to any local or other conditions placed before it by any club in regard to its dates.”