A RACING PROBLEM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 189, 19 November 1910, Page 7

A RACING PROBLEM

SQUABBLE OVER A DIVIDEND. INVESTOR PETITIONS PARLIAMENT. Wellington, Thursday. The House of Representatives spent a long time yesterday afternoon in discussing the petition of Mrs. Treweek, of Palmerston North, for some relief in connection with a dispute between her and the Woodville Jockey Club as to whether she should be paid on three totalisator tickets that she had purchased on a winning horse at the February meeting. Mrs. Treweek's statement was that she had purchased what she intended to be eight tickets on horse number 4, but subsequently found that three of them were issued for number a, the horse that actually won; but payment on them was refused on the following day on the ground that they had been issued in error, and rung up on number 4. Mrs. Treweek, however, maintained that the club would not have paid out on the tickets if number 4 had won, and that'in any case the club had not offered to refund the sum of £3.

Reporting on the petition yesterday, the Petitions Committee expressed the opinion that Mrs. Treweek was entitled to be paid the dividend on the three tickets bv the Woodville Club, and suggested that the New Zealand Racing Conference should be recommended to amend its rules to provide for the consecutive numbering of all totalisator tickets to obviate similar mistakes in the future. It was recommended that a copy of the report should be sent to the president of the Racing Conference. The report was adopted.