WELLINGTON RACING CLUB.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7941, 16 January 1906, Page 5

WELLINGTON RACING CLUB.

DEPUTATION TO SIR JOSEPH WARD. A TENT TELEGRAPH OFFICE . TO BE ESTABLISHED. WITHIN A FEW YARDS OF TRENTHAM RACECOURSE. WELLINGTON, Jan. 15. A deputation from tbe Wellington Raaing Club waited upon Sir Joseph Ward, placing before him the desire of the Club that no telegraph office should be established in the vicinity of the Club's new raceoourse at Trentham. In replying, Sir Joseph said that he had decided after careful consideration to establish a telegraph office in a tent some few hundred yards away from the Club's property. He had considered the whole subject from his position as bead of a Government Department, and not as a Minister, and he felt justified in saying that any Minister who came after him would perforce have to arrive at the same decision. It was a question of duty to the public. The Telegraph Department could not discriminate between telegrams as to their merits, where ever any big gathering of the public took place, whether an agricultural show or a race meeting, or anything else. It was the duty of the Department to establish an office by its regulations. Tbe Department was bound to deliver telegrams within a three-mile] radius of a receiving office, and if the telegraph office was not establshed at Trentham there would have to be 150 boys engaged to ride on bioycles or horses from the Upper Hutfc to deliver messages at Trentham. He assured the deputation that it was not in an antagonistic-spirit to the Racing Club that he had arrived at his decision.