RACING IN WAR TIME
QUESTION OF CURTAILMENT. VIEWS OF TROTTING CONFERENCE PRESIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. “If is easy to understand and sympathise with some of the opinions expressed by Mr A. S. Elworthy at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club yesterday, and while I greatly respect the honesty of his feelings and sentiment, it appears to me, as holder of a similar position, that the point inevitably arises whether Mr Elworthy, as chairman of the Canterbury Jockey Club and President of the Racing Conference, was in order in stating his. private opinions without first consulting with his conference and with Cabinet," said the President of the Trotting Conference, Mr H. F. Nicoll, today. “So far as trotting is concerned," Mr Nicoll added, "it was my intention to consult my conference at the annual meeting next month concerning the carrying on of the sport as usual, and only' last week I conferred with the President of the Trotting Association upon that matter, and he agreed that would be the proper course, but now that Mr Elworthy, although speaking in his private capacity but quoted as President of the Racing Conference, has published his ideas, it becomes necessary for me to say a few words in reply. It would not be proper for me to enter into any argument upon the question of continuing our present scale of racing without first conferring with my conference and with the Minister of Internal Affairs, but some guidance may be taken from the fact that in England, where suffering and bereavement is the daily lot of the people and extends throughout the land, and where every ounce of effort is required for the war, yet racing today is being carried on for three days every week,, as arranged between the Government and the Jockey Club, and l is supported by the King. The New Zealand Racing Conference and the New Zealand Trotting Conference have always agreed, both during the last war and this, that if at any time it can be shoyn that a continuance of racing is interfering with the war effort, they will be the first to arrange for a curtailment, and to that all followers of the sport will agree.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1941, Page 6
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