PAHIATUA RACING CLUB

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10641, 21 May 1912, Page 5

PAHIATUA RACING CLUB

DEPUVATION TO MINISTER. A deputation from the Pahiatua Racing Club waited .upon the Minister for tTnterual Affairs yesberday, and asked for a> reinstatement of the Pahiatua Racing CM) permit. The Minister, in replying, said he could not give a definite answer (that day, but he hoped before long to give the views ;of the" Uoveirrjment o ! u the su!bje ( ot. The rcpoW of the Racing Oomurtission had eniect until 31st Jmliy, and lie was not issuing permits beyond that dr/.e. fi'bis matter had •to cisme before Cabinet in order that Cabinet might lay down a line of policy in connection with .what was to (be done in connection with totalisator

iperm'Stis. He. would bring" the matter at 'Once .before Cabinet in order that 'A decision might- be come to, and he would give thorn this assurance that .if Cabinet determined that ttllie matter was lo ,be re-opened—that was to say, if the resohrtions of the Racing lOonnm-isisaon's repo'rt were not to be continued beyond the clue year—he would take the cwse of Pafliiatua into bis special ccinsideration, because it Appeared, to biroi that ( Pa'hiatua represented a type of oaise that, had'certainly been overlooked % the .Racing CTnmmissi'on in the report tliat it brought.down. Wbi-lle he was not prepared to encourage the wholesale support of '(mushroom meetings, yet ho ifelt'that the legislation of the. country .sil.buld br-fc stand .in the way of ft* people in a: district lib? Pahiatua having one or two days' racing in. a year. The Milliliter" added that he had sent on to Cabinet a irocoinimendatibn. that (hunt dubs should receive special consideration ifircm tWe State—:'f not by the. issue of totalisator permits, then Iby- some special encouragement through tha Agricultural Department, in .order to foster the breeding of wdght-carridrs and the clr>.s.<s of horses It-hat figured (at hunt meetings, -as compared with those that figured in diort. distance races.