PREMIER AND RACING.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1920, Page 5

PREMIER AND RACING.

STOPPAGE NOT MUCH LOSS. REVENUE PROM ELSEWHERE. By Telegraph.—rress Association. Christ-church, Last Night. ''l do not think it would be much loss to the country if we did away with racing altogether. It would not trouble me the very slightest. Perhaps, as Treasurer, I should not get as much revenue, but that will not worry me, for I could gel it some other way." 'That statement was made by the Prime Minister to a deputation of trade unions which waited upon him to-day with regard to the jockeys' dispute. Tii« deputation desired that Cabinet should use its best endeavors to get the New Zealand Racing Conference to recognisa the New Zealand Jockeys' Association. - Members went away apparently satisfied when Mr. Ma9sey replied that the assurance given him by members of the Racing Conference was that there was absolutely no objection to the Association appearing before the Conference. One of the members of the deputation remarked that if the Racing Conference was going to take, up the. old-time hostility to trades unionists and to the laws protecting it, tlie sport had better cease.

Mr. Massey: "Whoever breaks the laiv of the country, nvust face the music. The Racing Conference may make such rules and regulations as it likes, but it must keep within the four corners of the law of this country. We won't stand any nonsense of that kind."