QUESTION OF FACT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1056, 21 August 1930, Page 13

QUESTION OF FACT

MR. ROWE OBJECTS TO RIGHT OF APPEAL

OWNERS ON ASSOCIATION

A number of remits were disu«*ed at the annual conference i. * /* a . r * »aid the chairman of Auckland Trotting Club yeaj'The much talked of han««ppinfl question came up for urther coneideration and it was to carry on for a further 12 tiont. h * Under ,ast y ear 's condivr ? x S r ® sse(l views on the subfll * intend to carry them out. anuf as club is concerned the »rw Ca^^ ep bo instructed to treat iZy al * ke * The remit to give the the Power to make, alter canafe?* Pules dealing with the handiri3?*u Australian horses was ion»nV tnrown out. The association as "hSfc t€<l today, the majority of * . ow ners, is not in my opinion flak* ,® l H* ab * e to have the power to on a *J er an y of our rules; while ion 5? *)£ Ject 1 would like to nienConf«?f ‘Question of Fact Rule.” The Peal n« DCe Bays there shall be no apasaoriJ!- a Q ues tion of fact, yet the c5 atlon sa ys that clubs shall ac*hem t n a PP?aI and forward it on to vr*. r*2ii ec * de whether the incident y Iy a Question of fact or not.

ia jji * agTee *t is most desirable that b« where punishment has to flhonS ™ in *sjered the punishment .'Ureiv t ! le that being so, e l)est Judges of what that arij* wh 11 8houi(1 be are the stewand fiK« n ° not only hear the evidence •^tn* S a *v? e * lc ! w it is given, but also b*e« e incident. It has frequently a Uoti-_fif est — ar *d with some iustifi--’Jdiciai lhat owners should not sit on ® ommi ttees. I am of the a PUiefl ♦ at , t^ie suggestion could be 3wnJ° tle aß sociation as well, they a Pft r ® are not good one to have one eye on the n i otller on themselves in a I do not wish to be h or infer that the asso•hj pa*t < * one something wrong in •let 7 my °Pinion a question of uia have no right of appeal.”