WAIKATO RACES, 1876, AND OUR TURF CLUB.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 572, 20 January 1876, Page 3

WAIKATO RACES, 1876, AND OUR TURF CLUB.

Sir, -I hare road with mingled feelings of satisfaction and disgust the several articles that have appeared m your columns regarding the Waikato Kuoei of Seventy-six, and the apathy displayed by the Race Committee :— •atisfaction at your Yigoroiu jorbioles and extreme disgmt with tho Hamiltonian Steward*. Sir, it is evident to me —and I am not •mgular in my opinion— that the Hamilton Race Committee are working ayainst, instead of fdr, the object in hand. It will be apparent to every one that unless stops are immediately taken, we shall have no races thu year. It ib quite on the cardi, that, owing to such childish tad preposterous delay, the good folks of Cambridge will got up a Meet on their own account. This will be only putting m the thin ed^e of the wedge, and it will come to pass before long 'that each settlement will "go in" for thoir own annual race meeting— a coureo of .procedure which it is hardly necessary for mo to say, will be highly damaging to the true sporting intere»ts of the entire district, Sir, an annual race gathering for the whole of the Waikato must be ben ficwl. It tends to enliven up trade ; brings people from Tarioui townships togother, and so engenders sociability and good fellowship; brings pleasureseekers—probably future settlers to our district ; promotes healthy emulation in the breed of horecs, and does good m a thousand, and one different ways. Gr.mle'l therefoie thut annual races are a public benefit I would ask tho settlers oi \\ uikato through your columns, will they allow tins public benefit to die a natural death, because of ih« culpable neglect of a fow who hare tiikcn upon themselves the conduct of our annual t'ttnural ? I, would^respeetftilly suggest .that sporting men in each settlpinent hike etop» for calling public meetings m each town of tho Waikato, appoint their own delegate* to meet other delegates, collootsubicnptio'is and iiuiultineouslv work " with a pull aliogevhcr" for the common weal. By tins plan, and this plan only will thu races of sorer-ty-six bo pushed to a successful isiue ~ J Baui'ON. Waikato, Jan. 17th.