RECING PERMITS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10675, 23 July 1912, Page 5

RECING PERMITS

THE PREMIER INTERVIEWED.

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PAIMERSTON N., Last Night,

As the Premier panged tQuroiigh there today for WooaVille, Mr 'Buick, ;M.P.. in-t-|roduced a deputation of Ith'e Tk-ofcting Qub. Mr Fred Nathan asked for a totalizator Lust year, lis &aid, thoy \T.miaoTd to ca.v.ry out successful meetings without a .permit, chiefly by donations, which came mainly from farmers ; but they did not wisb to be dependent on donations', and as their object was to encourage the breeding ■of horses of a uissful typ&, he thought they should Be permitted' the help «f tine totaliisu'toir. There were, no other trotting clubs within a .wide radius, and the North Island had fewer trotting clubs than the South Island. He suggested tha tnaothea- d'hy ishould be aMowed if necessary, taking it from a club thi.i't was better toff, as was done in the case of Rangi•tikei.

iVr W. MeKmwie asked for a permit'for the Mamawatu Hunt Cub. >.Vi- -Mi-rucy said that the 250 days •aTiOwed by SllH.'i-ute could not be exceeded, etxeopt hy legislation.. As a iresult of the .Wellington Conference, a private Bill \mu!d be introduced to increase the number of dayis, and 5t >vould be treated as a non-party ■qncßtion. Bering a policy question, 'he could Inot commit the Government to more tilwa th;s..