TELEGRAPH OFFICES ON RACE COURSES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8029, 16 January 1906, Page 2

TELEGRAPH OFFICES ON RACE COURSES.

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER. | I'Klt NIKSS ASSOCIATION. Wkm.inuton, January 15. f A deputation from the Wellington t lfacing Club waited upon Sir Jose])h j A^ r ur.l to-day, placing before him the , desire of the Club that no telegraph ( office should be established in the ■ vicinity of the club's new racecourse at Tren thani, In replying, Sir Joseph Ward said that he had decided, after careful ! consideration, to establish a telegraph office iu a tout some few hundred yards away from the club's property Ho had considered the whole subject from his position as head of a Govern, meut Department, and not as a Minister, and he felt justified in saying that any Minister who came after him would porforee have, to arrive at the same decision. It was a question of a duty to the public. The Telegraph Department could not discriminate between telegrams as to their morits. Wherever any big gathering of the public took place, whether nn agricultural show, a race meeting, or anything else, it was the duty of the department to establish an oiliee. By its regulations the Department was [bound lo deliver telegrams within a I three mile radius of the receiving office, md if the telegraph office was not istablished at Trentham, there would \ttve to be 150 boys engaged to ride

on bicycles or horses from the Upper Hntt to deliver messages at Trentham. He assured the deputation that it

was in no antagonistic spirit to the Racing Club that he had arrived at his decision.