COUNCIL WARNED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 454, 11 June 1937, Page 5

COUNCIL WARNED

NO RACING AT PARK

Threat By Minister

Press Association —Copvright. Gisborne, June 11. Definite advice from the Minister of Lands, Hon. F. Langstone, to 'the effect thajt he will take steps to have the Gisborne Borough Council replaced as Trustee for 'the park course property in the event of the council persisting in its plan Ito allow racing on the course next month, has been received by the Mayor of Gisborne, Mr i D. W. Coleman, M.P. The letter ■ containing the Minister’s warning I will be placed before 'the council alt ' its next meeting. The Minister takes keen exception ■ to the course proposed by the council j and states 'that if the decision taken ! last week is maintained he will re_ I commend an Order-ih-Council removing the local body f;om its position ; of authority over the park property ■ and Jtrlansferring |the trusteeship < to .' the commissioner of Crown lands at • Gisborne. Asked whether, in the event of the • Minister taking the &teps outlined in ' his lelliter, the use of the park course j for racing next month would still be i available to the Racing Club, Mr | Coleman saidi he was not sure of the ; position. It might not be possible to have the council removed and the new ’authority appointed before the date of tthe Poverty Bay Turf Club’smeeting, but that did nc|t necessarily mean that racing could proceed. The club had still to secure its totalis. uitor license .for a meeting on the j park course, he understood, and he! could not imagine the Minister of In- j ternal Affairs, even if he were con- ' vinced that the park was l the best I venue for racing in thalt 'district, is- ■ suing a license for a ground which i was the subject of a controversy 1 with another Minister of the Crown. I