RACING PERMITS.
MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, February 2'2. "I give that sKtement an emphatic denial," said the Hon. G. W. Russeli (Minister of Internal Affairs) to-night with reference to the statement to tho Hamilton Chamber of Commerce by Mr. Smith that he knew of a case where the Government had informed a racing club that if it' suspended its meetings for the duration of the war it would forfeit its permit. "Several racing clubs in New Zealand," added the Minister, "one at Cheviot, another at Kaikoura, a third, I think, in Central Otago, and a hunt club in Canterbury have notified the Government that they don't propose to race while the war is on, and in each case they asked whether they would by this course forfeit their right to a permit for the use of the totalisator when the war is over. In no case has any pledge or promise been given by the Government, except this, that the closing down of race meetings during the war, which I, as Minister of Internal Affairs, heartily and congratulate them upon, will not prejudice their right to a totalisator permit after the war is over."-
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1917, Page 6
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196RACING PERMITS. Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1917, Page 6
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