THE RACING CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9150, 24 July 1908, Page 5

THE RACING CONFERENCE.

By Telegraph—Press Association, j WELLINGTON, July 23. At the Racing Conference, to-day, the Dates and Permits Committee, consisting of Messrs E. W. Alison, T. W. Abbott, E. Goodbehere, John McVay, C. Hood-Williams, and H. Friedlander was re-appointed. The committee appointed to consider and report upon the working of the Gaming and Lotteries Act Amendment Act reported that: "It considers it inexpedient at present to make any suggestions as to the gen • eral work of the Act, or to alter the present regulations to those recommended by the special meeting of the Racing Conference in January last, in view of the fact that the whole matter is still in an experimental stage. The committee, however, are satisfied that the procedure of racing clubs in the observance of the Act should be uniform, and therefore advise the incorporation of the regulations in the rules of racing." The chief features of the regulations are as follows:—No Club giving less than £4OO per day in stakes to charge a higher fee than £lO per day (except in cases where less than six licences are issued), each holder of a license to be entitled to employ a clerk at a fee of 10s per day; special portions of the course to be set apart for bookmakers; no bookmak r ti) bet after the closing of the totalisator for each race; no bookmaker to lay totalisator odds; bookmakers and clerks io wear badges; no bookmaker to make any wager depending on the result of more than one race; no bookmaker to run a horse at a j meeting at which, he holds a license.