WAIPA FIXTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 966, 8 May 1930, Page 12

WAIPA FIXTURE

QUESTION OF DATES NO APPLICATION SENT IN From Our Own Correspondent TK AWAMUTU, Wednesday. The action of the Auckland District Committee in recommending to the Racing Conference that Te Kuiti Club be granted Saturday and Monday, December 13 and 15, has occasioned surprise among racing enthusiasts. The District Committee mentioned that no application for any date had been received from the Waipa Racing Club. Inquiry shows that actually no application was made, the explanation being that the Waipa Club’s secretary had no intimation that the District Committee would bo meeting so soon. Mr. Wynyard, the Waipa Racing Club’s secretary, could not make application before his committee had considered the circuit suggestion that Waipa should depart from its custom of racing in mid-December, and choose a date a week near Christmas, thus allowing Taumarunui to race on the first week-end in December, and Te Kuiti the following week-end. Waipa Club considered the matter at its committee meeting last Friday, and opposed the suggestion. It is assumed among local sportsmen that the District Committee was somewhat precipitate in recommending that Te Kuiti be given permission to race on December 13 and 15. The secretary of the Waipa Club could have made application earlier for the usual date this year, in view of the meeting of his executive on Friday night last, while the need for expedition was not foreseen, as he had no intimation that the District Committee would be meeting so early as Tuesday. [The New Zealand Rules of Racing specifically provide that all applications by clubs for totulisator licences should Vi© forwarded to the District Committee not later than April 30 (Part 3, clause 14 of New Zealand Rules of Racing.) The Auckland District Committee meets on the first Tuesday of each month, and this month’s meeting was held on May G, when the applications for dates were dealt with.—“ Early Bird.”]