RACING & TROTTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1942, Page 4

RACING & TROTTING

■ FURTHER CURTAILMENT MINISTER TAKING ACTION. CONFERENCES CONSULTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Action , is being taker, by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Parry) in conjunction with the Racing and Trotting conferences, for a considerable curtailment of the number of racing and trotting meetings in the current year and probably for the duration of the war. , In an interview, Mr 7arry said the cutting out of some sixty days of racing and twenty of trotting was likely to result from the proposals. The Racing Conference had intimated that it considered 60 days should be abandoned. The Trotting Conference had not yet given a definite statement, but tentative proposals indicated that it would be not more than 15. In regard to racing, Mr Parry said probably reliance was being placed on the possibility of hunt clubs not racing at the end of the season. The Minister himself thought it a matter for consideration whether clubs with several days’ racing should not stand a reduction, apart from the days lost through the mid-week prohibition. The Minister said that at the last meeting between himself and representatives of the conferences, the whole question of Japan’s entry into the war and the necessity for a further curtailment was discussed and the conferences were advised to confer together and make concrete proposals regarding the actual number of days on which racing should be carried on, and he had spoken of the desirability of some scheme whereby clubs which would still have meetings should afford assistance to those unable to cany on There would have to be a fair alloca - tion of days as between racing and trotting.